Identification of sample annotation errors in gene expression datasetsVise andre og tillknytning
2015 (engelsk)Inngår i: Archives of Toxicology, ISSN 0340-5761, E-ISSN 1432-0738, Vol. 89, nr 12, s. 2265-2272Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
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Abstract [en]
The comprehensive transcriptomic analysis of clinically annotated human tissue has found widespread use in oncology, cell biology, immunology, and toxicology. In cancer research, microarray-based gene expression profiling has successfully been applied to subclassify disease entities, predict therapy response, and identify cellular mechanisms. Public accessibility of raw data, together with corresponding information on clinicopathological parameters, offers the opportunity to reuse previously analyzed data and to gain statistical power by combining multiple datasets. However, results and conclusions obviously depend on the reliability of the available information. Here, we propose gene expression-based methods for identifying sample misannotations in public transcriptomic datasets. Sample mix-up can be detected by a classifier that differentiates between samples from male and female patients. Correlation analysis identifies multiple measurements of material from the same sample. The analysis of 45 datasets (including 4913 patients) revealed that erroneous sample annotation, affecting 40 % of the analyzed datasets, may be a more widespread phenomenon than previously thought. Removal of erroneously labelled samples may influence the results of the statistical evaluation in some datasets. Our methods may help to identify individual datasets that contain numerous discrepancies and could be routinely included into the statistical analysis of clinical gene expression data.
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2015. Vol. 89, nr 12, s. 2265-2272
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Gene expression, Microarray, Misannotation, Quality control, Male-female classifier
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-272120DOI: 10.1007/s00204-015-1632-4ISI: 000366155200007PubMedID: 26608184OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-272120DiVA, id: diva2:893188
Forskningsfinansiär
German Research Foundation (DFG), RA 870/4-1German Research Foundation (DFG), RA 870/5-1Swedish Cancer Society2016-01-122016-01-122018-02-01bibliografisk kontrollert