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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2011

Appearance frequency modulated gene set enrichment testing.

Jun Ma, Maureen A Sartor, H V Jagadish

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Jun MaDepartment of EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. majun@umich.edu
Maureen A Sartor
H V Jagadish

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Nation Center- Integrative Biomedical Informatics(RMI)U54DA021519 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ATHEY, BRIAN DAVID · 2005 to 2010
$21.3M
Literature and Data Driven Hypothesis Generation for High Throughput ExperimentsR01LM010138 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI JAGADISH, H V · 2009 to 2010
$1.0M
NIDA NIH HHS U54DA021519NLM NIH HHS LM010138-01NLM NIH HHS R01 LM010138
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Abstract

backgroundGene set enrichment testing has helped bridge the gap from an individual gene to a systems biology interpretation of microarray data. Although gene sets are defined a priori based on biological knowledge, current methods for gene set enrichment testing treat all genes equal. It is well-known that some genes, such as those responsible for housekeeping functions, appear in many pathways, whereas other genes are more specialized and play a unique role in a single pathway. Drawing inspiration from the field of information retrieval, we have developed and present here an approach to incorporate gene appearance frequency (in KEGG pathways) into two current methods, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) and logistic regression-based LRpath framework, to generate more reproducible and biologically meaningful results.

resultsTwo breast cancer microarray datasets were analyzed to identify gene sets differentially expressed between histological grade 1 and 3 breast cancer. The correlation of Normalized Enrichment Scores (NES) between gene sets, generated by the original GSEA and GSEA with the appearance frequency of genes incorporated (GSEA-AF), was compared. GSEA-AF resulted in higher correlation between experiments and more overlapping top gene sets. Several cancer related gene sets achieved higher NES in GSEA-AF as well. The same datasets were also analyzed by LRpath and LRpath with the appearance frequency of genes incorporated (LRpath-AF). Two well-studied lung cancer datasets were also analyzed in the same manner to demonstrate the validity of the method, and similar results were obtained.

conclusionsWe introduce an alternative way to integrate KEGG PATHWAY information into gene set enrichment testing. The performance of GSEA and LRpath can be enhanced with the integration of appearance frequency of genes. We conclude that, generally, gene set analysis methods with the integration of information from KEGG PATHWAY performs better both statistically and biologically.

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Gene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationGene FrequencyHumansInformation Storage and RetrievalOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisReproducibility of Results

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