Statistical detection of short periodic gene expression time series profiles

Alan Wee Chung Liew, Ngai Fong Law, Hong Yan

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Abstract

Many cellular processes exhibit periodic behaviors. Hence, one of the important tasks in gene expression data analysis is to detect subset of genes that exhibit cyclicity or periodicity in their gene expression time series profiles. Unfortunately, gene expression time series profiles are usually of very short length and highly contaminated with noise. This makes detection of periodic profiles a very difficult problem. Recently, a hypothesis testing method based on the Fisher g-statistic with correction for multiple testing has been proposed to detect periodic gene expression profiles. However, it was observed that the test is not reliable if the signal length is too short. In this paper, we performed extensive simulation study to investigate the statistical power of the test as a function of signal length, SNR, and the false discovery rate. We found that the number of periodic profiles can be severely underestimated for short length signal. The findings indicated that caution needs to be exercised when interpreting the test result for very short length signals.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Models For Life Sciences (CMLS '07) - 2007 International Symposium
Pages157-166
Number of pages10
Volume952
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2007
Event2007 International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences, CMLS '07 - Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Duration: 17 Dec 200719 Dec 2007

Conference

Conference2007 International Symposium on Computational Models for Life Sciences, CMLS '07
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityGold Coast, QLD
Period17/12/0719/12/07

Keywords

  • Fisher exact test
  • G-statistic
  • Gene expression profiles
  • Periodicity detection
  • Short signal

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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