Statistical significance for genomewide studies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - Tập 100 Số 16 - Trang 9440-9445 - 2003
John D. Storey1,2, Robert Tibshirani1
1Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; and Departments of Health Research and Policy and Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
2Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

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With the increase in genomewide experiments and the sequencing of multiple genomes, the analysis of large data sets has become commonplace in biology. It is often the case that thousands of features in a genomewide data set are tested against some null hypothesis, where a number of features are expected to be significant. Here we propose an approach to measuring statistical significance in these genomewide studies based on the concept of the false discovery rate. This approach offers a sensible balance between the number of true and false positives that is automatically calibrated and easily interpreted. In doing so, a measure of statistical significance called the q value is associated with each tested feature. The q value is similar to the well known p value, except it is a measure of significance in terms of the false discovery rate rather than the false positive rate. Our approach avoids a flood of false positive results, while offering a more liberal criterion than what has been used in genome scans for linkage.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Tập 100 Số 16

9440-9445

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