[BioC] Limma and logistic regression

[Daniel Brewer]

Hello,

I have a situation where I have a microarray set and a binary outcome
that I want to examine.  If I was just looking at one gene I would use
glm with family=bionomial with the expression levels as the explanatory
variable.

I would like to look at the whole set of genes and for that I would
normally use limma, but limma has the expression level as the response
variable and so the binary outcome would be an explanatory variable.  Is
this an equivalent approach?  Is it valid and what are the differences,
especially in assumptions?

Thanks

Dan
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Daniel Brewer, Ph.D.

Institute of Cancer Research
Molecular Carcinogenesis
Email: daniel.brewer at icr.ac.uk
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