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ROTS: reproducible RNA-seq biomarker detector—prognostic markers for clear cell renal cell cancer

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Seyednasrollah, Fatemeh, Rantanen, Krista, Jaakkola, Panu, Elo, Laura L.·2016·Nucleic Acids Research

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Recent comprehensive assessments of RNA-seq technology support its utility in quantifying gene expression in various samples. The next step of rigorously quantifying differences between sample groups, however, still lacks well-defined best practices. Although a number of advanced statistical methods have been developed, several studies demonstrate that their performance depends strongly on the data under analysis, which compromises practical utility in real biomedical studies. As a solution, we propose to use a data-adaptive procedure that selects an optimal statistic capable of maximizing reproducibility of detections. After demonstrating its improved sensitivity and specificity in a controlled spike-in study, the utility of the procedure is confirmed in a real biomedical study by identifying prognostic markers for clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). In addition to identifying several genes previously associated with ccRCC prognosis, several potential new biomarkers among genes regulating cell growth, metabolism and solute transport were detected.

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  • Because simulations rely on specific distributions or limited datasets and spike-in datasets have only technical replicates with minimal variation, comparisons have been complemented with real datasets with true biological replicates.

    “As simulations typically rely on specific statistical distributions or on limited experimental datasets and as spike-in datasets represent only technical replicates with minimal variation, comparisons using simulated datasets have been complemented with more practical comparisons in real datasets with true biological replicates [64, 210, 211].”

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Authors
Seyednasrollah, F., Rantanen, K., Jaakkola, P., & Elo, L. L.
Affiliations
Åbo Akademi University (FI)
Corresponding author
  • Seyednasrollah, Fatemeh
  • Elo, Laura L.
Venue
Nucleic Acids Research
Published
2015-08-11
Volume
44
Issue
1
Pages
e1-e1
ISSN
  • 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
  • 1362-4962
OpenAlex
W1932455826
Cited by
75
References
40
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3.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nucleic Acids Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Keywords
reproducibility, clear cell renal cell carcinoma, prognostic factors, differential gene expression, gene expression quantification
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Carcinoma, Renal Cell, Humans, Kidney Neoplasms, Prognosis, ROC Curve, Software, Biomarkers, Tumor, Reproducibility of Results, Models, Statistical, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Computational Biology, Internet, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Datasets as Topic

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