Detecting differential expression in RNA-sequence data using quasi-likelihood with shrunken dispersion estimates

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Lund, Steven P ^a   Nettleton, Dan ^b   McCarthy, Davis J ^c   Smyth, Gordon K ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Differential expression; Quasi likelihood; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; DISPERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC DATABASE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

MESSENGER RNA;

BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84879198972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1544-6115.1826     Document Type: Article

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