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ArticleScientific reports2017

Statistical Analysis of Zebrafish Locomotor Behaviour by Generalized Linear Mixed Models.

Yiwen Liu, Ping Ma, Paige A Cassidy, Robert Carmer, Gaonan Zhang, Prahatha Venkatraman, Skye A Brown, Chi Pui Pang, Wenxuan Zhong, Mingzhi Zhang and 1 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Yiwen LiuDepartment of Statistics, University of Georgia, 101 Cedar St, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Ping MaDepartment of Statistics, University of Georgia, 101 Cedar St, Athens, GA, 30602, USA.
Paige A CassidyDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 915 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Robert CarmerDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 915 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Gaonan ZhangDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 915 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Prahatha VenkatramanDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 915 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Skye A BrownDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 915 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Chi Pui PangDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Wenxuan ZhongDepartment of Statistics, University of Georgia, 101 Cedar St, Athens, GA, 30602, USA. wenxuan@uga.edu.
Mingzhi ZhangJoint Shantou International Eye Center, Shantou University & the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shantou, China. zmz@jsiec.org.
Yuk Fai LeungDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 915 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA. yfleung@purdue.edu.

Funding

Novel statistical tools for cell line specific epigenetic analysisR01GM113242 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI ZHONG, WENXUAN · 2014 to 2017
$1.4M
Deciphering the Regulatory Role of Small RNAs on Alternative Splicing R01GM122080 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI MA, PING · 2016 to 2019
$1.3M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM113242NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM122080
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Upon a drastic change in environmental illumination, zebrafish larvae display a rapid locomotor response. This response can be simultaneously tracked from larvae arranged in multi-well plates. The resulting data have provided new insights into neuro-behaviour. The features of these data, however, present a challenge to traditional statistical tests. For example, many larvae display little or no movement. Thus, the larval responses have many zero values and are imbalanced. These responses are also measured repeatedly from the same well, which results in correlated observations. These analytical issues were addressed in this study by the generalized linear mixed model (GLMM). This approach deals with binary responses and characterizes the correlation of observations in the same group. It was used to analyze a previously reported dataset. Before applying the GLMM, the activity values were transformed to binary responses (movement vs. no movement) to reduce data imbalance. Moreover, the GLMM estimated the variations among the effects of different well locations, which would eliminate the location effects when two biological groups or conditions were compared. By addressing the data-imbalance and location-correlation issues, the GLMM effectively quantified true biological effects on zebrafish locomotor response.

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Behavior, AnimalLinear ModelsLocomotionMotor ActivityAlgorithmsAnalysis of VarianceAnimalsLarvaLife Cycle StagesModels, StatisticalSpecies SpecificityTime FactorsZebrafish

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PMID28592855
PMCPMC5462837

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