[BioC] edgeR: very low p-value and very high variance within the group of replicates
Simon Anders
anders at embl.de
Wed Jun 19 20:45:01 CEST 2013
Hi Valentina
> I obtained a very odd results: in some cases I had a very low p-value
> and FDR but looking at the raw data it is obvious that the difference
> between the two groups can't be significant.
Maybe also give DESeq2 a try. We recently implemented some changes to
improve its robustness against outliers of the kind that you are
describing.
Don't be too surprised, though, if you don't find any useful hits:
Usually, it takes samples from dozens of patients to find genes which
gene which differ between sub-groups with different prognosis. With only
6 samples, you are severely underpowered.
Simon
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