Nonparametric methods for analyzing replication origins in genomewide data

Debashis Ghosh
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Debashis Ghosh: University of Michigan

No 1031, The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series from Berkeley Electronic Press

Abstract: Due to the advent of high-throughput genomic technology, it has become possible to globally monitor cellular activities on a genomewide basis. With these new methods, scientists can begin to address important biological questions. One such question involves the identification of replication origins, which are regions in chromosomes where DNA replication is initiated. In addition, one hypothesis regarding replication origins is that their locations are non-random throughout the genome. In this article, we develop methods for identification of and cluster inference regarding replication origins involving genomewide expression data. We compare several nonparametric regression methods for the identification of replication origin locations. Testing the hypothesis of randomness of these locations is done using Kolmogorov-Smirnov and scan statistics. The methods are applied to data from a recent study in yeast in which candidate replication origins were profiled using cDNA microarrays.

Keywords: changepoint; density estimation; derivative estimation; gene expression; kernel smoothing; microarray (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-07-11
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