Hi everyone,
I am doing a PCA analysis with my RNASeq data and I want to konw whether the genotypes have a great effect on the gene expression. I have four genotypes :G0(wild type),G1,G2,G3 and three time points: T1,T2,T3. All the values in the dataset are Log2FC values compared to wild type. The data looks like this:
Gene | Genotype | T1 | T2 | T3 |
a1 | G1 | . | . | . |
a2 | G1 | . | . | . |
a3 | G1 | . | . | . |
a4 | G1 | . | . | . |
a5 | G1 | . | . | . |
a6 | G1 | . | . | . |
a7 | G1 | . | . | . |
a8 | G1 | . | . | . |
a9 | G1 | . | . | . |
a10 | G1 | . | . | . |
a1 | G2 | . | . | . |
a2 | G2 | . | . | . |
a3 | G2 | . | . | . |
a4 | G2 | . | . | . |
a5 | G2 | . | . | . |
a6 | G2 | . | . | . |
a7 | G2 | . | . | . |
a8 | G2 | . | . | . |
a9 | G2 | . | . | . |
a10 | G2 | . | . | . |
a1 | G3 | . | . | . |
a2 | G3 | . | . | . |
a3 | G3 | . | . | . |
a4 | G3 | . | . | . |
a5 | G3 | . | . | . |
a6 | G3 | . | . | . |
a7 | G3 | . | . | . |
a8 | G3 | . | . | . |
a9 | G3 | . | . | . |
a10 | G3 | . | . |
.After the PCA analysis, all the dots red, blue and green (represent three different genotypes ) are stacked together, they are not clustered according to genotypes. I am not sure this is what it is or there is something wrong with my data format. Thanks for your help in advance. |
What do the dots mean in your description of the data? What commands did you use to generate the PCA plot? Can you give us a picture of what the PCA plot actually looks like?