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Dear Dennis,
To find transcripts specific to one tissue versus the others, you need
to
test that tissue vs the others, but I'm sure you already know that.
If
you have replicates of each tissue, you can do pairwise comparisons
between the tissues, and choose transcripts which are consistently up
in one vs all the others. If you don't have replicates, there's no
alternative really other than to treat the other 7 as a group.
Including lots of isoforms and using tags multiple times will multiple
the
number of rows in your data and therefore increase the amount of
multiple
testing. Other than that, it is not a serious problem. You could
consider doing a gene-level analysis first, then repeating with an
isoform
level analysis for the significant genes found in the first step.
Best wishes
Gordon
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:49:05 +1000
> From: "Dennis Gascoigne" <d.gascoigne at="" imb.uq.edu.au="">
> To: <bioconductor at="" r-project.org="">
> Subject: [BioC] edgeR: Identifying genes up regulated in one of
> multiple samples, and those stable across samples
>
> Hi;
>
> I have a list of transcripts with tag counts for each of them in 8
different
> tissues. My list includes many isoforms of similar genes etc. which
is not a
> problem for me - but will it effect the stats from edger as
obviously some
> tags are counted multiple times. There are 40M tags in each
experiment so I
> am assuming the aggregate effect should prevent any great problems.
>
> My main questions are;
>
> 1. I would like to identify which transcripts appear to be
specific to
> an individual tissue from my 8
>
> 2. Which genes are ubiquitously expressed across all 8
>
> Cheers
> Dennis
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