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Comparison and consolidation of microarray data sets of human tissue expression

dc.contributor.authorRuss, Jenny
dc.contributor.authorFutschik, Matthias E.
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-07T14:57:51Z
dc.date.available2018-12-07T14:57:51Z
dc.date.issued2010-05
dc.description.abstractBackground: Human tissue displays a remarkable diversity in structure and function. To understand how such diversity emerges from the same DNA, systematic measurements of gene expression across different tissues in the human body are essential. Several recent studies addressed this formidable task using microarray technologies. These large tissue expression data sets have provided us an important basis for biomedical research. However, it is well known that microarray data can be compromised by high noise level and various experimental artefacts. Critical comparison of different data sets can help to reveal such errors and to avoid pitfalls in their application. Results: We present here the first comparison and integration of four freely available tissue expression data sets generated using three different microarray platforms and containing a total of 377 microarray hybridizations. When assessing the tissue expression of genes, we found that the results considerably depend on the chosen data set. Nevertheless, the comparison also revealed statistically significant similarity of gene expression profiles across different platforms. This enabled us to construct consolidated lists of platform-independent tissue-specific genes using a set of complementary measures. Follow-up analyses showed that results based on consolidated data tend to be more reliable. Conclusions: Our study strongly indicates that the consolidation of the four different tissue expression data sets can increase data quality and can lead to biologically more meaningful results. The provided compendium of platform-independent gene lists should facilitate the identification of novel tissue-specific marker genes.
dc.description.sponsorshipDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SFB 618]; Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1471-2164-11-305
dc.identifier.issn1471-2164
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11728
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherBMC
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectOligonucleotide array data
dc.subjectGene-expression
dc.subjectCdna microarray
dc.subjectCancer
dc.subjectCells
dc.subjectNormalization
dc.subjectPlatforms
dc.subjectProfiles
dc.subjectTranscriptomes
dc.subjectPrediction
dc.titleComparison and consolidation of microarray data sets of human tissue expression
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.startPage305
oaire.citation.titleBmc Genomics
oaire.citation.volume11
person.familyNameFutschik
person.givenNameMatthias
person.identifier.ciencia-idA71B-AD01-3501
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-6245-8071
person.identifier.scopus-author-id14017989400
rcaap.rightsopenAccess
rcaap.typearticle
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