[BioC] help with limma commands

[michael watson (IAH-C)]

In your example,

topTable(fit2, coef=1, adjust="fdr")

Will get you the diff expressed genes for "group2-group1".

topTable(fit2, coef=2, adjust="fdr")

Will get you the genes for "group3-group2" etc

The key argument here is "coef", which you should use to refer to the
index of the coefficient as specified in the call to makeContrasts.

Mick

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Preston [mailto:jpreston at mscience.com.au] 
Sent: 19 November 2004 06:03
To: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [BioC] help with limma commands


Hi there,

I was wondering what command to use to see the lists of genes for
group3-group2 and group3-group1.

In the example from the user guide the top genes expressed
differentially in group2 versus group1 can be obtained with the command
listed below. I have tried to extrapolate this to get the other
contrasts, but have had no success.

 

To make all pair-wise comparisons between the three groups the
appropriate contrast matrix can be created by

> contrast.matrix <- makeContrasts(group2-group1, group3-group2,
group3-group1, levels=design)
> fit2 <- contrasts.fit(fit, contrast.matrix)
> fit2 <- eBayes(fit2)

A list of top genes differential expressed in group2 versus group1 can
be obtained from

> topTable(fit2, coef=1, adjust="fdr")
 
 
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
 
Regards,
Jeremy.

 

 

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