Finding significant genes using factor analysis

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Clustering for gene expression data without filtering out noise genes may be distorted or derived inappropriate inference. Identifying significant genes and deleting noise before major analysis is necessary fur meaningful discovery from genes expression pattern. We proposed a new method of finding significant genes using factor analysis which is done on transposed data matrix. We construct significance score that is sum of factor loadings for declared significant number of factor, and set threshold through replication. Our proposed method works well for simulated time-course data for finding significant genes even though variance level gets larger.