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Gene Sets Net Correlations Analysis (GSNCA): a multivariate differential
coexpression test for gene sets
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Rahmatallah Y
; Emmert-Streib F
; Glazko G
Bioinformatics
2014[Feb]; 30
(3
): 360-8
PMID24292935
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MOTIVATION: To date, gene set analysis approaches primarily focus on identifying
differentially expressed gene sets (pathways). Methods for identifying
differentially coexpressed pathways also exist but are mostly based on aggregated
pairwise correlations or other pairwise measures of coexpression. Instead, we
propose Gene Sets Net Correlations Analysis (GSNCA), a multivariate differential
coexpression test that accounts for the complete correlation structure between
genes. RESULTS: In GSNCA, weight factors are assigned to genes in proportion to
the genes' cross-correlations (intergene correlations). The problem of finding
the weight vectors is formulated as an eigenvector problem with a unique
solution. GSNCA tests the null hypothesis that for a gene set there is no
difference in the weight vectors of the genes between two conditions. In
simulation studies and the analyses of experimental data, we demonstrate that
GSNCA captures changes in the structure of genes' cross-correlations rather than
differences in the averaged pairwise correlations. Thus, GSNCA infers differences
in coexpression networks, however, bypassing method-dependent steps of network
inference. As an additional result from GSNCA, we define hub genes as genes with
the largest weights and show that these genes correspond frequently to major and
specific pathway regulators, as well as to genes that are most affected by the
biological difference between two conditions. In summary, GSNCA is a new approach
for the analysis of differentially coexpressed pathways that also evaluates the
importance of the genes in the pathways, thus providing unique information that
may result in the generation of novel biological hypotheses. AVAILABILITY AND
IMPLEMENTATION: Implementation of the GSNCA test in R is available upon request
from the authors.