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This study evaluated methods for combining p-values to detect differentially expressed (DE) genes in RNA-Seq data. The Weighted Z-test showed the best performance in identifying true DE genes across various datasets.

Keywords:
AlgorithmsCombining P-valuesDifferential ExpressionI.1.2 [Algorithms]: Analysis of algorithmsJ.3 [Life and Medical Sciences]: Biology and geneticsRNA-Seq

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Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology
  • Genomics

Background:

  • RNA-Seq data analysis is crucial for understanding biological processes.
  • Gene-level analysis of RNA-Seq data can be inaccurate due to read distribution heterogeneity.
  • Regional analysis, such as exon-level, combined with p-value aggregation may improve DE gene detection.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the performance of various p-value combining methods for detecting differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in RNA-Seq data.
  • To compare Fisher's, Z-transform, Weighted Z-test, Minimum P-value, Logit, and Weighted-sum methods.
  • To assess the effectiveness of these methods on liver, kidney, and MAQC datasets.

Main Methods:

  • Applied six widely-used p-value combining methods to publicly available RNA-Seq datasets.
  • Analyzed performance based on the detection of true DE genes and true non-DE genes.
  • Investigated the impact of weights in the Weighted Z-test and potential issues with p-value independence.

    • Main Results:

    • The Weighted Z-test demonstrated superior performance in detecting true DE genes on liver and kidney datasets.
    • On MAQC datasets, methods performed similarly, with a slight advantage for Weighted Z-test and Fisher's method in detecting DE genes.
    • The Weighted-sum method excelled at identifying true non-DE genes, indicating an inverse performance relationship.

    Conclusions:

    • The Weighted Z-test is effective for identifying true DE genes in RNA-Seq data.
    • Performance variations suggest challenges in combining p-values, potentially due to test dependency.
    • A modified Fisher's method may offer improved accuracy when combining p-values, especially with potential dependencies.