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The number of controls versus treatment in differential expression analysis

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AZ ▴ 30

@fereshteh-15803

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United Kingdom

Hello

I have RNAseq of miRNAs so the number of tested miRNAs are 1640

I have 2 healthy samples versus 12 cancer samples Does it Statistically make sense to compare two controls with 12 cancers?

Can I trust the p-value in differential expression?

Thank you

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Michael Love 43k

@mikelove

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Yes, this should be fine, I would examine plotDispEsts and also the plotCounts for top genes.

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Gordon Smyth 53k

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WEHI, Melbourne, Australia

Fine, there is no assumption that the groups have equal sample numbers.

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