MLML2R: an R package for maximum likelihood estimation of DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation proportions.

abstract：:Multiple testing procedures are commonly used in gene expression studies for the detection of differential expression, where typically thousands of genes are measured over at least two experimental conditions. Given the need for powerful testing procedures, and the attendant danger of false positives in multiple testi...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Green GH,Diggle PJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline mosaicism is a genetic condition in which some germ cells of an individual contain a mutation. This condition violates the assumptions underlying classic genetic analysis and may lead to failure of such analysis. In this work we extend the statistical model used for genetic linkage analysis in order to incorp...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Weissbrod O,Geiger D

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been increasing interest in predicting patients' survival after therapy by investigating gene expression microarray data. In the regression and classification models with high-dimensional genomic data, boosting has been successfully applied to build accurate predictive models and conduct variable selection s...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Wang Z,Wang CY

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we address the problem of detecting outlier samples with highly different expression patterns in microarray data. Although outliers are not common, they appear even in widely used benchmark data sets and can negatively affect microarray data analysis. It is important to identify outliers in order to exp...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Shieh AD,Hung YS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a Bayesian hierarchical model for detecting differentially expressed genes using a mixture prior on the parameters representing differential effects. We formulate an easily interpretable 3-component mixture to classify genes as over-expressed, under-expressed and non-differentially expressed, and model gene...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Lewin A,Bochkina N,Richardson S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput sequencing techniques are increasingly affordable and produce massive amounts of data. Together with other high-throughput technologies, such as microarrays, there are an enormous amount of resources in databases. The collection of these valuable data has been routine for more than a decade. Despite di...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Schimek MG,Budinská E,Kugler KG,Švendová V,Ding J,Lin S

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Output from analysis of a high-throughput 'omics' experiment very often is a ranked list. One commonly encountered example is a ranked list of differentially expressed genes from a gene expression experiment, with a length of many hundreds of genes. There are numerous situations where interest is in the comparison of ...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Donald MR,Wilson SR

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In candidate gene association studies, usually several elementary hypotheses are tested simultaneously using one particular set of data. The data normally consist of partly correlated SNP information. Every SNP can be tested for association with the disease, e.g., using the Cochran-Armitage test for trend. To account ...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Elsäβer A,Victor A,Hommel G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are concerned with statistical inference for 2 × C × K contingency tables in the context of genetic case-control association studies. Multivariate methods based on asymptotic Gaussianity of vectors of test statistics require information about the asymptotic correlation structure among these test statistics under th...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Dickhaus T,Stange J,Demirhan H

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We address a potential shortcoming of three probabilistic models for detecting interspecific recombination in DNA sequence alignments: the multiple change-point model (MCP) of Suchard et al. (2003), the dual multiple change-point model (DMCP) of Minin et al. (2005), and the phylogenetic factorial hidden Markov model (...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Husmeier D,Mantzaris AV

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent analytic and technological breakthroughs have set the stage for genome-wide linkage disequilibrium studies to map disease-susceptibility variants. This paper discusses a probabilistic methodology for making disease-mapping inferences in large-scale case-control genetic studies. The semi-Bayesian approach promot...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Schrodi SJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the increasing availability of experimental data on gene interactions, modeling of gene regulatory pathways has gained special attention. Gradient descent algorithms have been widely used for regression and classification applications. Unfortunately, results obtained after training a model by gradient descent are...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Das M,Murthy CA,De RK

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluate variable selection by multiple tests controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) to build a linear score for prediction of clinical outcome in high-dimensional data. Quality of prediction is assessed by the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) for prediction in independent patients. Thus we try to ...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Graf AC,Bauer P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain residues have no known function yet are co-conserved across distantly related protein families and diverse organisms, suggesting that they perform critical roles associated with as-yet-unidentified molecular properties and mechanisms. This raises the question of how to obtain additional clues regarding these m...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Neuwald AF

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of finding periodically expressed genes from time course microarray experiments is at the center of numerous efforts to identify the molecular components of biological clocks. We present a new approach to this problem based on the cyclohedron test, which is a rank test inspired by recent advances in algebr...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Morton J,Pachter L,Shiu A,Sturmfels B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approaches based upon sequence weights, to construct a position weight matrix of nucleotides from aligned inputs, are popular but little effort has been expended to measure their quality. We derive optimal sequence weights that minimize the sum of the variances of the estimators of base frequency parameters for sequen...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Newberg LA,McCue LA,Lawrence CE

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dirichlet Process (DP) mixture model has become a popular choice for model-based clustering, largely because it allows the number of clusters to be inferred. The sequential updating and greedy search (SUGS) algorithm (Wang & Dunson, 2011) was proposed as a fast method for performing approximate Bayesian inference ...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Crook OM,Gatto L,Kirk PDW

更新日期：2019-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple branching trees have been used to model the acquisition of HIV drug resistance mutations, and several different algorithms have been developed to construct the tree set that best describes the data. These algorithms have mainly focused on the structure of the tree set. The focal point of this paper is estimat...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Healy BC,DeGruttola VG,Hu C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present paper is to develop a truly functional Bayesian method specifically designed for time series microarray data. The method allows one to identify differentially expressed genes in a time-course microarray experiment, to rank them and to estimate their expression profiles. Each gene expressio...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Angelini C,De Canditiis D,Mutarelli M,Pensky M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, alignment-free methods have been widely applied in comparing genome sequences, as these methods compute efficiently and provide desirable phylogenetic analysis results. These methods have been successfully combined with hierarchical clustering methods for finding phylogenetic trees. However, it may no...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Huang HH,Girimurugan SB

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we explore the use of M-quantile regression and M-quantile coefficients to detect statistical differences between temporal curves that belong to different experimental conditions. In particular, we consider the application of temporal gene expression data. Here, the aim is to detect genes whose temporal...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Vinciotti V,Yu K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal genomics data and survival outcome are common in biomedical studies, where the genomics data are often of high dimension. It is of great interest to select informative longitudinal biomarkers (e.g. genes) related to the survival outcome. In this paper, we develop a computationally efficient tool, LCox, fo...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Sun J,Herazo-Maya JD,Wang JL,Kaminski N,Zhao H

更新日期：2019-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Locus heterogeneity is one of the most important issues in gene mapping and can cause significant reductions in statistical power for gene mapping, yet no research to date has provided power and sample size calculations for family-based association methods in the presence of locus heterogeneity. The purpose of this re...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Chen C,Yang G,Buyske S,Matise T,Finch SJ,Gordon D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many gene- and pathway-based association tests have been proposed in the literature. Among them, the SKAT is widely used, especially for rare variants association studies. In this paper, we investigate the connection between SKAT and a principal component analysis. This investigation leads to a procedure that encompas...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Chen Z,Han S,Wang K

更新日期：2017-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In the exploding field of gene expression techniques such as DNA microarrays, there are still few general probabilistic methods for analysis of variance. Linear models and ANOVA are heavily used tools in many other disciplines of scientific research. The usual F-statistic is unsatisfactory for microarray data, which e...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Lönnstedt I,Rimini R,Nilsson P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several important syndromes are caused by deleterious germline mutations of individual genes. In both clinical and research applications it is useful to evaluate the probability that an individual carries an inherited genetic variant of these genes, and to predict the risk of disease for that individual, using informa...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Chen S,Wang W,Broman KW,Katki HA,Parmigiani G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gametic models for fitting breeding values at QTL as random effects in outbred populations have become popular because they require few assumptions about the number and distribution of QTL alleles segregating. The covariance matrix of the gametic effects has an inverse that is sparse and can be constructed rapidly by ...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Thallman RM,Hanford KJ,Kachman SD,Van Vleck LD

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop an approach for microarray differential expression analysis, i.e. identifying genes whose expression levels differ between two or more groups. Current approaches to inference rely either on full parametric assumptions or on permutation-based techniques for sampling under the null distribution. In some situa...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Rossell D,Guerra R,Scott C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The approach adopted involved two-stages. First the 11205 measurements in the mass spectrometry data were reduced to 14 scores by a principal component analysis of the centered but otherwise untreated and unscaled data matrix. Then a linear classifier was derived by linear discriminant analysis using these 14 scores a...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Fearn T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-color optical mapping is a new technique being developed to obtain detailed physical maps (indicating relative positions of various recognition sites) of DNA molecules. We consider a study design in which the data consist of noisy observations of multiple copies of a DNA molecule marked with colors at recognitio...

journal_title：Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology

authors： Tong L,Mets L,McPeek MS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00