Comparison of confound adjustment methods in the construction of gene co-expression networks

Abstract Adjustment for confounding sources of expression variation is an important preprocessing step in large gene expression studies, but the effect of confound adjustment on co-expression network analysis has not been well-characterized. Here, we demonstrate that the choice of confound adjustment method can have a considerable effect on the architecture of the resulting co-expression network. We compare standard and alternative confound adjustment methods and provide recommendations for their use in the construction of gene co-expression networks from bulk tissue RNA-seq datasets..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 25. Mai Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cote, A.C. [VerfasserIn]
Young, H.E. [VerfasserIn]
Huckins, L.M. [VerfasserIn]

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doi:

10.1101/2021.05.18.444709

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XBI020607512