Empirical Bayes estimation of posterior probabilities of enrichment

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2011-12-30

arxiv.org/abs/1201.0153v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Genomics

exhaustive revision of Zhenyu Yang and David R. Bickel, "Minimum Description Length Measures of Evidence for Enrichment" (Dece

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To interpret differentially expressed genes or other discovered features, researchers conduct hypothesis tests to determine which biological categories such as those of the Gene Ontology (GO) are enriched in the sense of having differential representation among the discovered features. We study application of better estimators of the local false discovery rate (LFDR), a probability that the biological category has equivalent representation among the preselected features. We identified three promising estimators of the LFDR for detecting differential representation: a semiparametric estimator (SPE), a normalized maximum likelihood estimator (NMLE), and a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE). We found that the MLE performs at least as well as the SPE for on the order of 100 of GO categories even when the ideal number of components in its underlying mixture model is unknown. However, the MLE is unreliable when the number of GO categories is small compared to the number of PMM components. Thus, if the number of categories is on the order of 10, the SPE is a more reliable LFDR estimator. The NMLE depends not only on the data but also on a specified value of the prior probability of differential representation. It is therefore an appropriate LFDR estimator only when the number of GO categories is too small for application of the other methods. For enrichment detection, we recommend estimating the LFDR by the MLE given at least a medium number (~100) of GO categories, by the SPE given a small number of GO categories (~10), and by the NMLE given a very small number (~1) of GO categories.

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