A Bayesian model to identify multiple expression patterns with simultaneous FDR control for a multi-factor RNA-seq experiment

Bian Yuanyuan, He Chong and Qiu Jing ()
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Bian Yuanyuan: Eli Lily and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA
He Chong: Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA
Qiu Jing: Department of Applied Economics and Statistics, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2023, vol. 22, issue 1, 18

Abstract: It is often of research interest to identify genes that satisfy a particular expression pattern across different conditions such as tissues, genotypes, etc. One common practice is to perform differential expression analysis for each condition separately and then take the intersection of differentially expressed (DE) genes or non-DE genes under each condition to obtain genes that satisfy a particular pattern. Such a method can lead to many false positives, especially when the desired gene expression pattern involves equivalent expression under one condition. In this paper, we apply a Bayesian partition model to identify genes of all desired patterns while simultaneously controlling their false discovery rates (FDRs). Our simulation studies show that the common practice fails to control group specific FDRs for patterns involving equivalent expression while the proposed Bayesian method simultaneously controls group specific FDRs at all settings studied. In addition, the proposed method is more powerful when the FDR of the common practice is under control for identifying patterns only involving DE genes. Our simulation studies also show that it is an inherently more challenging problem to identify patterns involving equivalent expression than patterns only involving differential expression. Therefore, larger sample sizes are required to obtain the same target power to identify the former types of patterns than the latter types of patterns.

Keywords: Bayesian model; equivalent expression; group specific FDR; multiple gene expression patterns; nonlocal prior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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