[BioC] limma and Volcano Plots

[Gordon K Smyth]

Dear Saket,

You are right to be skeptical about the results, because the code is not 
testing the correct contrast.  If you use the group-parametrization as in:

   design <- model.matrix(~0 + f)

then you need to form a contrast between the two groups (Grade 2 vs
Control) in order to test for differential expression.  As it is, you are 
simply testing whether the mean for Grade 2 is equal to zero:

   topTable(ebayes, coef = 2, adjust = "BH", n = 100)

and it is no surprise than everything is significant.

Section 9.2 of the limma User's Guide explains two different ways you can 
form the design matrix.  Either way is fine, but your code has combined a 
bit of one approach with a bit of the other.

Best wishes
Gordon
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> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:09:32 +0530
> From: Saket Choudhary <saketkc at gmail.com>
> To: bioconductor at r-project.org
> Subject: [BioC] limma and Volcano Plots
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> I am working on a Proteomics microarray data using only the Red
> Channel, though there are both R and G channels. The objective is find
> DE genes in Grade2 samples of cancer as compared to Controls.
>
> I created a gist here : https://gist.github.com/saketkc/8669586
> Targets file: https://gist.github.com/saketkc/8669785
> Volcano Plot: http://share.pho.to/4e1QT
>
>
> I am a bit skeptical about the nature of my volcano plot, showing
> quite high log odds and skewed. Have I, in the process of playing
> around with the code, committed a mistake somewhere?
>
>
>
> Saket


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