The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics (응용통계연구)

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A Method for Gene Group Analysis and Its Application

유전자군 분석의 방법론과 응용

  • Lee, Tae-Won (Department of Information and Mathematics, Korea University) ;
  • Delongchamp, Robert R. (Department of Epidemiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
  • 이태원 (고려대학교 정보수학과) ;
  • Received : 2011.02.28
  • Accepted : 2011.04.07
  • Published : 2012.04.30
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Abstract

In microarray data analysis, recent efforts have focused on the discovery of gene sets from a pathway or functional categories such as Gene Ontology terms(GO terms) rather than on individual gene function for its direct interpretation of genome-wide expression data. We introduce a meta-analysis method that combines $p$-values for changes of each gene in the group. The method measures the significance of overall treatment-induced change in a gene group. An application of the method to a real data demonstrates that it has benefits over other statistical methods such as Fisher's exact test and permutation methods. The method is implemented in a SAS program and it is available on the author's homepage(http://cafe.daum.net/go.analysis).

마이크로어레이 분석은 특이 발현하는 개별적인 유전자보다 유전자 온톨로지(Gene Ontology)와 같이 기능적 분류나 생물학적 경로(pathway)와 관련된 유전자군을 찾아내는 것이 그 해석의 용이성 때문에 최근 더욱 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 약물 처리에 의한 생물학적 반응을 연구할 때, 한 유전자군에 속하는 유전자들 각각의 특이 발현 여부의 유의성을 나타내는 $p$-value들을 취합하여 그 유전자군의 유의성을 결정하는 통계 검증 방법을 본 논문에서 소개하였다. 본 논문에 제시된 유전자군 분석(Gene group analysis) 방법은 Fisher's exact test나 permutation test와 같은 기존의 대표적인 방법들보다 더 정확하고 적용범위가 넓음을 실재 생물학 실험 자료의 분석을 통해 보였다. 제시된 유전자군 분석 방법은 SAS 프로그램으로 구현되었고 저자의 홈페이지(http://cafe.daum.net/go.analysis)에서 내려 받아 사용할 수 있다.

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