[BioC] regarding affylmGUI

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:14 AM, deepika lakhwani
<lakhwanideepika at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello....
>
> i am using affymlmGUI for microarray analysis and finally i got top 50
> genes which are up regulated. i got a file in which *ID    M     A    t
>  P.value and B *column are present. can anyone tell me what is M and A???

While I've never used this package, my *guess* is that these are the
same M and A that are used in MA plots, where M is the log fold change
of the gene's expression in your two samples, and A is the mean
expression of the two genes in the samples.

HTH,
-steve

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