| Literature DB >> 35115012 |
Alanna C Cote1,2,3, Hannah E Young1,2,3, Laura M Huckins4,5,6,7,8,9.
Abstract
Adjustment for confounding sources of expression variation is an important preprocessing step in large gene expression studies, but the effect of confound adjustment on co-expression network analysis has not been well-characterized. Here, we demonstrate that the choice of confound adjustment method can have a considerable effect on the architecture of the resulting co-expression network. We compare standard and alternative confound adjustment methods and provide recommendations for their use in the construction of gene co-expression networks from bulk tissue RNA-seq datasets.Entities:
Keywords: Batch effects; Co-expression; Complex traits; Confound; Covariate; Module discovery; Normalization; RNA-seq
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Year: 2022 PMID: 35115012 PMCID: PMC8812044 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-022-02606-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genome Biol ISSN: 1474-7596 Impact factor: 17.906