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  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Genomics and Transcriptomics
  • Statistical Genetics

Background:

  • Current gene set analysis methods primarily focus on detecting homogeneous changes in mean gene expression.
  • Methods for detecting differential variance in gene expression remain underexplored and underutilized.
  • Existing approaches overlook gene sets with distinct subgroup changes within a phenotype, hindering the detection of meaningful biological differences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate multivariate sample-level variance analysis methods for gene set analysis.
  • To detect differential sample variance and mean in omics data, particularly in the presence of heterogeneous differences.
  • To provide improved biological interpretations from gene expression datasets with complex molecular subtypes.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized ranking schemes based on minimum spanning trees to generalize Cramer-Von Mises and Anderson-Darling statistics.
  • Developed multivariate gene set analysis methods to detect differential sample variance and mean.
  • Applied methods to microarray and bulk RNA-sequencing datasets from leukemia and polyps studies, characterized by distinct molecular subtypes.

Main Results:

  • The developed methods successfully detected differential sample variance in gene expression datasets.
  • Methods identified specific hallmark signaling pathways associated with distinct phenotypes in leukemia and polyp datasets.
  • Results demonstrate the capability of variance-focused methods to capture biologically relevant, heterogeneous differences.

Conclusions:

  • Methods designed for differential sample variance analysis are valuable for biological interpretation, especially with heterogeneous changes.
  • The developed methods provide insights into signaling pathways linked to complex phenotypes.
  • Software implementation (GSAR package) is available for gene expression and other normalized omics data.