Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Adjustment of spurious correlations in co-expression measurements from RNA-Sequencing data 1Gene co-expression measurements are widely used in computational biology to identify coordinated expression patterns across a group of samples, which may indicate that these genes are controlled by the same transcriptional regulatory program, or involved in common biological processes. Gene co-expression is generally estimated from RNA-Seq data, which are generally normalized to remove technical variability. Here, we find and demonstrate that certain normalization methods, in particular quantile-based methods, can introduce false-positive associations between genes, and that this can consequently hamper downstream co-expression network analysis. Quantile-based normalization can, however, be extremely powerful. In particular when preprocessing large-scale heterogeneous data, quantile-based normalization can be applied to remove technical variability while maintaining global differences in expression for samples with different biological attributes. We therefore developed CAIMAN, a method to correct for false-positive associations that may arise from normalization of RNA-Seq data. CAIMAN utilizes a Gaussian mixture model to fit the distribution of gene expression and to adaptively select the threshold to define lowly expressed genes, which are prone to form false-positive associations. Thereafter, CAIMAN corrects the normalized expression for these genes by removing the variability across samples that might lead to false-positive associations. Moreover, CAIMAN avoids arbitrary gene filtering and retains associations to genes that only express in small subgroups of samples, highlighting its potential future impact on network modeling and other association-based approaches in large-scale heterogeneous data.
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