Avoiding pitfalls in gene (co)expression meta-analysis

Genomics

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-30

  Östlund, Gabriel ^a,b   Sonnhammer, Erik L L ^a,b,c  

^a SCIENCE FOR LIFE LABORATORY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Swedish EScience Research Center   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer gene expression; Differential coexpression; Differential expression; Microarray data processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COLON CANCER; DATA PROCESSING; GENE COEXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION; LUNG CANCER; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; TUMOR GENE;

CANCER GENE EXPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL COEXPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION; MICROARRAY DATA PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84895890663     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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