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A new statistic for identifying batch effects in high-throughput genomic data that uses guided principal component analysis.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 15 Nov 2013
Reese Sarah E, Archer Kellie J, Therneau Terry M, Atkinson Elizabeth J, Vachon Celine M, de Andrade Mariza, Kocher Jean-Pierre A, Eckel-Passow Jeanette E
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MOTIVATION: Batch effects are due to probe-specific systematic variation between groups of samples (batches) resulting from experimental features that are not of biological interest. Principal component analysis (PCA) is commonly used as a visual tool to determine whether batch effects exist after applying a global normalization method. However, PCA yields linear combinations of the variables that contribute...
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