Revealing Predictive Gene Groups with Supervised Algorithms
| Author: | Marcel Dettling |
| Version of: | March 10, 2004 |
| Abstract: | Microarray technology allows the measurement of
expression levels of thousands of genes simultaneously and is expected
to contribute significantly to advances in fundamental questions of
biology and medicine. While microarrays monitor thousands of genes,
there is a lot of evidence that only a few underlying signature
components of gene subsets account for nearly all of the outcome
variation. Here, methodology for revealing these predictive gene
clusters in microarray data is presented. For this task, we focus on
supervised algorithms, defined as clustering techniques which utilize
external information about the response variables for grouping the
explanatory variables (genes). In studies where external response
variables are available, our approach is often more effective than
unsupervised techniques such as hierarchical clustering.
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| Length: | 9 pages |
| Reference: | Proceedings
of the Conference in Distributed Statistical Computing, DSC 2003,
Vienna. Editors: Kurt Hornik, Friedrich Leisch and Achim Zeileis.
ISSN 1609-395X |
| Download: | PDF (228k), PS (512k). |
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