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A Comparative Study of Parametric Methods for Significant Gene Set Identification Depending on Various Expression Metrics

유전자 발현 메트릭에 기반한 모수적 방식의 유의 유전자 집합 검출 비교 연구

  • 김재영 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부) ;
  • 신미영 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부)
  • Published : 2010.01.15
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Abstract

Recently lots of attention has been paid to gene set analysis for identifying differentially expressed gene-sets between two sample groups. Unlike earlier approaches, the gene set analysis enables us to find significant gene-sets along with their functional characteristics. For this reason, various novel approaches have been suggested lately for gene set analysis. As one of such, PAGE is a parametric approach that employs average difference (AD) as an expression metric to quantify expression differences between two sample groups and assumes that the distribution of gene scores is normal. This approach is preferred to non-parametric approach because of more effective performance. However, the metric AD does not reflect either gene expression intensities or variances over samples in calculating gene scores. Thus, in this paper, we investigate the usefulness of several other expression metrics for parametric gene-set analysis, which consider actual expression intensities of genes or their expression variances over samples. For this purpose, we examined three expression metrics, WAD (weighted average difference), FC (Fisher's criterion), and Abs_SNR (Absolute value of signal-to-noise ratio) for parametric gene set analysis and evaluated their experimental results.

최근 마이크로어레이 데이터를 기반으로 두 개의 샘플 그룹간에 유의한 발현 차이를 나타내는 생물학적 기능 그룹을 검출하기 위한 유전자 집합 분석(gene set analysis) 연구가 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 기존의 유의 유전자 검출 연구와는 달리, 유전자 집합 분석 연구는 유의한 유전자 집합과 이들의 기능적 특징을 함께 검출할 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 이러한 이유로 최근에는 PAGE, GSEA 등과 같은 다양한 통계적 방식의 유전자 집합 분석 방법들이 소개되고 있다. 특히, PAGE의 경우 두 샘플 그룹간의 유전자 발현 차이를 나타내는 스코어의 분포가 정규 분포임을 가정하는 모수적 접근 방식을 취하고 있다. 이러한 방법은 GSEA 등과 같은 비모수적 방식에 비해 계산량이 적고 성능이 비교적 우수한 장점이 있다. 하지만, PAGE에서 유전자 발현 차이를 정량화하기 위한 메트릭으로 사용하고 있는 AD(average difference)의 경우, 두 그룹간에 절대적 평균 발현 차이만을 고려하기 때문에 실제 유전자의 발현값 크기나 분산의 크기에 따른 상대적 중요성을 반영하지 못하는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이를 보완하기 위해 실제 유전자의 발현값 크기나 그룹 내 샘플들의 분산 정보 등을 스코어 계산에 함께 반영하는 WAD(weighted average difference), FC(Fisher's criterion), 그리고 Abs_SNR(Absolute value of signal-to-noise ratio)을 모수적 방식의 유전자 집합 분석에 적용하고 이에 따른 유의 유전자 집합 검출 결과를 실험을 통해 비교 분석하였다.

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