A Bayesian Mixture Model for Differential Gene Expression

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  • Kim-Anh Do
    University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center , Houston , USA
  • Peter Müller
    University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center , Houston , USA
  • Feng Tang
    University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center , Houston , USA

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<jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p>We propose model-based inference for differential gene expression, using a nonparametric Bayesian probability model for the distribution of gene intensities under various conditions. The probability model is a mixture of normal distributions. The resulting inference is similar to a popular empirical Bayes approach that is used for the same inference problem. The use of fully model-based inference mitigates some of the necessary limitations of the empirical Bayes method. We argue that inference is no more difficult than posterior simulation in traditional nonparametric mixture-of-normal models. The approach proposed is motivated by a microarray experiment that was carried out to identify genes that are differentially expressed between normal tissue and colon cancer tissue samples. Additionally, we carried out a small simulation study to verify the methods proposed. In the motivating case-studies we show how the nonparametric Bayes approach facilitates the evaluation of posterior expected false discovery rates. We also show how inference can proceed even in the absence of a null sample of known non-differentially expressed scores. This highlights the difference from alternative empirical Bayes approaches that are based on plug-in estimates.</jats:p>

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