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Quantitative trait associated microarray gene expression data analysis.

Abstract：

:Selection on phenotypes may cause genetic change. To understand the relationship between phenotype and gene expression from an evolutionary viewpoint, it is important to study the concordance between gene expression and profiles of phenotypes. In this study, we use a novel method of clustering to identify genes whose expression profiles are related to a quantitative phenotype. Cluster analysis of gene expression data aims at classifying genes into several different groups based on the similarity of their expression profiles across multiple conditions. The hope is that genes that are classified into the same clusters may share underlying regulatory elements or may be a part of the same metabolic pathways. Current methods for examining the association between phenotype and gene expression are limited to linear association measured by the correlation between individual gene expression values and phenotype. Genes may be associated with the phenotype in a nonlinear fashion. In addition, groups of genes that share a particular pattern in their relationship to phenotype may be of evolutionary interest. In this study, we develop a method to group genes based on orthogonal polynomials under a multivariate Gaussian mixture model. The effect of each expressed gene on the phenotype is partitioned into a cluster mean and a random deviation from the mean. Genes can also be clustered based on a time series. Parameters are estimated using the expectation-maximization algorithm and implemented in SAS. The method is verified with simulated data and demonstrated with experimental data from 2 studies, one clusters with respect to severity of disease in Alzheimer's patients and another clusters data for a rat fracture healing study over time. We find significant evidence of nonlinear associations in both studies and successfully describe these patterns with our method. We give detailed instructions and provide a working program that allows others to directly implement this method in their own analyses.

journal_name

Mol Biol Evol

journal_title

Molecular biology and evolution

authors

Qu Y,Xu S

doi

10.1093/molbev/msl019

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-08-01 00:00:00

pages

1558-73

issue

eissn

0737-4038

issn

1537-1719

pii

msl019

journal_volume

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Quantitative trait associated microarray gene expression data analysis.