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Peng, Fred
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Hello all,
I have a question while I am using the limma package to
identify
differentially expressed genes: should I perform gene filtering
after
normalization to exclude genes that are likely unexpressed in the
samples
before fitting the linear model. With my limited stats knowledge, I
believe
the inclusion of 'unexpressed' genes may affect the BH mutliple
testing
correction by unnecessarily increasing the number of genes being
tested.
Previously when I performed global test (using the globaltest
package) on
Affy data, however, I found that the gene filtering step had no
noticeable
effect on the final P-value and therefore had not been required, so
I wonder
if limma's capability to detect differentially expressed genes
would be
affected by whether or not 'unexpressed' genes were filtered out.
Thanks very much in advance.
Fred Peng