| dc.creator | Chaba, Linda Akoth | |
| dc.creator | Odhiambo, John W. | |
| dc.creator | Omolo, Bernard | |
| dc.date | 08/15/2014 | |
| dc.date | Fri, 15 Aug 2014 | |
| dc.date | Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:42:28 | |
| dc.date | Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:42:28 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-18T11:29:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-03-18T11:29:15Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11071/3818 | |
| dc.description | Conference paper presented in International Biometric Conference 2014 | |
| dc.description | Melanoma is a major public health concern in the developed world. Melanoma
research has been enhanced by the introduction of microarray technology, whose
main aim is to identify genes that are associated with outcomes of interest in
melanoma biology and disease progression. Many statistical methods have been
proposed for gene selection but so far none of them is regarded as the standard
method. In addition, none of the proposed methods have applied copulas to identify
genes that are associated with quantitative traits. In this study, we developed a
copula-based approach to identify genes that are associated with quantitative traits
in the systems biology of melanoma. To assess the statistical properties of model ,
we evaluated the power, the false-rejection rate and the true-rejection rate using
simulated gene expression data . The model was then applied to a melanoma
dataset for validation. Comparison of the copula approach with the Bayesian and
other parametric approaches was performed, based on the false discovery rate
(FOR) , the value of R-square and prognostic properties. It turned out that the copula
model was more robust and better than the others in the selection of genes that
were biologically and clinically significant. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Melanoma is a major public health concern in the developed world. Melanoma
research has been enhanced by the introduction of microarray technology, whose
main aim is to identify genes that are associated with outcomes of interest in
melanoma biology and disease progression. Many statistical methods have been
proposed for gene selection but so far none of them is regarded as the standard
method. In addition, none of the proposed methods have applied copulas to identify
genes that are associated with quantitative traits. In this study, we developed a
copula-based approach to identify genes that are associated with quantitative traits
in the systems biology of melanoma. To assess the statistical properties of model ,
we evaluated the power, the false-rejection rate and the true-rejection rate using
simulated gene expression data . The model was then applied to a melanoma
dataset for validation. Comparison of the copula approach with the Bayesian and
other parametric approaches was performed, based on the false discovery rate
(FOR) , the value of R-square and prognostic properties. It turned out that the copula
model was more robust and better than the others in the selection of genes that
were biologically and clinically significant. | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.subject | copula | |
| dc.subject | gene expression | |
| dc.subject | melanoma | |
| dc.subject | microarray | |
| dc.subject | quantitative trait | |
| dc.title | A copula-based approach to differential gene expression analysis | |
| dc.type | Conference Paper | |
