Testing for Trends in Dose-Response Microarray Experiments: A Comparison of Several Testing Procedures, Multiplicity and Resampling-Based Inference

Lin Dan, Shkedy Ziv, Yekutieli Dani, Burzykowski Tomasz, Göhlmann Hinrich W.H., An De Bondt, Perera Tim, Geerts Tamara and Bijnens Luc
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Lin Dan: Hasselt University
Shkedy Ziv: Hasselt University
Yekutieli Dani: Tel Aviv University
Burzykowski Tomasz: Hasselt University
Göhlmann Hinrich W.H.: Johnson & Johnson PRD
An De Bondt: Johnson & Johnson PRD
Perera Tim: Johnson & Johnson PRD
Geerts Tamara: Johnson & Johnson PRD
Bijnens Luc: Johnson & Johnson PRD

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2007, vol. 6, issue 1, 28

Abstract: Dose-response studies are commonly used in experiments in pharmaceutical research in order to investigate the dependence of the response on dose, i.e., a trend of the response level toxicity with respect to dose. In this paper we focus on dose-response experiments within a microarray setting in which several microarrays are available for a sequence of increasing dose levels. A gene is called differentially expressed if there is a monotonic trend (with respect to dose) in the gene expression. We review several testing procedures which can be used in order to test equality among the gene expression means against ordered alternatives with respect to dose, namely Williams' (Williams 1971 and 1972), Marcus' (Marcus 1976), global likelihood ratio test (Bartholomew 1961, Barlow et al. 1972, and Robertson et al. 1988), and M (Hu et al. 2005) statistics. Additionally we introduce a modification to the standard error of the M statistic. We compare the performance of these five test statistics. Moreover, we discuss the issue of one-sided versus two-sided testing procedures. False Discovery Rate (Benjamni and Hochberg 1995, Ge et al. 2003), and resampling-based Familywise Error Rate (Westfall and Young 1993) are used to handle the multiple testing issue. The methods above are applied to a data set with 4 doses (3 arrays per dose) and 16,998 genes. Results on the number of significant genes from each statistic are discussed. A simulation study is conducted to investigate the power of each statistic. A R library IsoGene implementing the methods is available from the first author.

Keywords: dose response study; multiple testing; monotonicity; resampling-based procedures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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