Analysis of the real EADGENE data set: comparison of methods and guidelines for data normalisation and selection of differentially expressed genes (open access publication).

TitleAnalysis of the real EADGENE data set: comparison of methods and guidelines for data normalisation and selection of differentially expressed genes (open access publication).
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsJaffrézic, F, de Koning, D-J, Boettcher, PJ, Bonnet, A, Buitenhuis, B, Closset, R, Déjean, S, Delmas, C, Detilleux, JC, Dovc, P, Duval, M, Foulley, J-L, Hedegaard, J, Hornshøj, H, Hulsegge, I, Janss, L, Jensen, K, Jiang, L, Lavric, M, Cao, K-ALê, Lund, MSandø, Malinverni, R, Marot, G, Nie, H, Petzl, W, Pool, MH, Robert-Granié, C, San Cristobal, M, van Schothorst, EM, Schuberth, H-J, Sørensen, P, Stella, A, Tosser-Klopp, G, Waddington, D, Watson, M, Yang, W, Zerbe, H, Seyfert, H-M
JournalGenet Sel Evol
Volume39
Issue6
Pagination633-50
Date Published2007 Nov-Dec
ISSN0999-193X
KeywordsAnalysis of Variance, Animals, Animals, Domestic, Bias (Epidemiology), Cattle, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Databases, Genetic, Escherichia coli Infections, Europe, Female, Gene Expression Profiling, Guidelines as Topic, Mastitis, Bovine, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Quality Control, Software, Staphylococcal Infections
Abstract

A large variety of methods has been proposed in the literature for microarray data analysis. The aim of this paper was to present techniques used by the EADGENE (European Animal Disease Genomics Network of Excellence) WP1.4 participants for data quality control, normalisation and statistical methods for the detection of differentially expressed genes in order to provide some more general data analysis guidelines. All the workshop participants were given a real data set obtained in an EADGENE funded microarray study looking at the gene expression changes following artificial infection with two different mastitis causing bacteria: Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. It was reassuring to see that most of the teams found the same main biological results. In fact, most of the differentially expressed genes were found for infection by E. coli between uninfected and 24 h challenged udder quarters. Very little transcriptional variation was observed for the bacteria S. aureus. Lists of differentially expressed genes found by the different research teams were, however, quite dependent on the method used, especially concerning the data quality control step. These analyses also emphasised a biological problem of cross-talk between infected and uninfected quarters which will have to be dealt with for further microarray studies.

DOI10.1051/gse:2007029
Alternate JournalGenet. Sel. Evol.
PubMed ID18053573
PubMed Central IDPMC2682811
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