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Jane Fridlyand
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Last seen 10.2 years ago
Hi,
I just recently saw R-function to compute Q-values given unadjusted
p-values on John Storey web page:
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~storey/qvalue/index.html
I have not tried it myself.
My question concerns normalization discussion on which I have been
reading
in recent postings. Does anyone have suggestion of what would work for
2-color arrays with common reference design (and the "truth" for the
reference is known -- special case of measuring copy number rather
than
expression) where majority of the genome is rearranged (i.e. majority
of
the spots "change"). Assumption of equal fraction of "ups" and "downs"
may
not be made either. Generally simple global median normalization works
just fine but not here. I have been hitting my head off the the wall
for
the past 3 weeks after encountering three datasets in the row with
significant proportion of tumors looking like normalization failed
because
of global genomic instability (majority of clones show change) but
can't
come up with a good normalization idea here rather than change the
post-normalization analysis approach. No internal controls are
possible
here. Has anybody encountered situation like that with 2-color gene
expression chips? I have 3 replicates for each spot but they are
located
right next to each other.
Thanks you very much
Jane