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ArticleNucleic acids research2019

Nonparametric expression analysis using inferential replicate counts.

Anqi Zhu, Avi Srivastava, Joseph G Ibrahim, Rob Patro, Michael I Love

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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5 authors.

Anqi ZhuDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Avi SrivastavaDepartment of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Computer Science Building, Engineering Dr, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
Joseph G IbrahimDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Rob PatroDepartment of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Computer Science Building, Engineering Dr, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
Michael I LoveDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 135 Dauer Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.

Funding

UNC-CH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH &SUSCEPTIBILITYP30ES010126 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Melissa A. Troester · 2001 to 2026
$36.3M
Statistical Methods for Cancer Clinical TrialsP01CA142538 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DAVIDIAN, MARIE, KOSOROK, MICHAEL R · 2010 to 2019
$21.3M
Bayesian Approaches to Model Selection for Survival DataR01GM070335 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI IBRAHIM, JOSEPH G · 2003 to 2019
$4.0M
A Modular Framework for Accurate, Interpretable, and Reproducible Analysis of Long Read RNA-Seq DataR01HG009937 · NHGRI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Michael Isaiah Love, Robert Patro · 2018 to 2026
$2.8M
pathQTL: Integrative Multi-Omics Causal Inference of Molecular Mechanisms Leading to Neuropsychiatric IllnessR01MH118349 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI LOVE, MICHAEL ISAIAH, STEIN, JASON LOUIS · 2019 to 2023
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA142538NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG009937NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES010126NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM070335NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH118349
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A primary challenge in the analysis of RNA-seq data is to identify differentially expressed genes or transcripts while controlling for technical biases. Ideally, a statistical testing procedure should incorporate the inherent uncertainty of the abundance estimates arising from the quantification step. Most popular methods for RNA-seq differential expression analysis fit a parametric model to the counts for each gene or transcript, and a subset of methods can incorporate uncertainty. Previous work has shown that nonparametric models for RNA-seq differential expression may have better control of the false discovery rate, and adapt well to new data types without requiring reformulation of a parametric model. Existing nonparametric models do not take into account inferential uncertainty, leading to an inflated false discovery rate, in particular at the transcript level. We propose a nonparametric model for differential expression analysis using inferential replicate counts, extending the existing SAMseq method to account for inferential uncertainty. We compare our method, Swish, with popular differential expression analysis methods. Swish has improved control of the false discovery rate, in particular for transcripts with high inferential uncertainty. We apply Swish to a single-cell RNA-seq dataset, assessing differential expression between sub-populations of cells, and compare its performance to the Wilcoxon test.

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AlgorithmsCell LineageGene ExpressionGene Expression ProfilingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansRNASequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisSoftwareRNA

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PMCPMC6765120

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