A systematic integrated analysis of brain expression profiles reveals YAP1 and other prioritized hub genes as important upstream regulators in Alzheimer's disease

M Xu, DF Zhang, R Luo, Y Wu, H Zhou, LL Kong… - Alzheimer's & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Profiling the spatial-temporal expression pattern and characterizing the
regulatory networks of brain tissues are vital for understanding the pathophysiology of …

Prenatal phthalates, maternal thyroid function, and risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in the Norwegian mother and child cohort

SM Engel, GD Villanger, RC Nethery… - Environmental …, 2018 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: There is growing concern that phthalate exposures may have an impact on
child neurodevelopment. Prenatal exposure to phthalates has been linked with externalizing …

Classifiers and their metrics quantified

JB Brown - Molecular informatics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular modeling frequently constructs classification models for the prediction of two‐
class entities, such as compound bio (in) activity, chemical property (non) existence, protein …

Alternative empirical Bayes models for adjusting for batch effects in genomic studies

Y Zhang, DF Jenkins, S Manimaran, WE Johnson - BMC bioinformatics, 2018 - Springer
Background Combining genomic data sets from multiple studies is advantageous to
increase statistical power in studies where logistical considerations restrict sample size or …

A merged lung cancer transcriptome dataset for clinical predictive modeling

SB Lim, SJ Tan, WT Lim, CT Lim - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database is an excellent public source of
whole transcriptomic profiles of multiple cancers. The main challenge is the limited …

Comparison of statistical methods and the use of quality control samples for batch effect correction in human transcriptome data

A Espín-Pérez, C Portier, M Chadeau-Hyam… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Batch effects are technical sources of variation introduced by the necessity of conducting
gene expression analyses on different dates due to the large number of biological samples …

Identifying and correcting epigenetics measurements for systematic sources of variation

F Perrier, A Novoloaca, S Ambatipudi, L Baglietto… - Clinical …, 2018 - Springer
Background Methylation measures quantified by microarray techniques can be affected by
systematic variation due to the technical processing of samples, which may compromise the …

In vitro pluripotent stem cell differentiation to hepatocyte ceases further maturation at an equivalent stage of E15 in mouse embryonic liver development

R Raju, D Chau, T Notelaers, CL Myers… - Stem Cells and …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) can be derived from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) by
sequential treatment of chemical cues to mimic the microenvironment of embryonic liver …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying differentially expressed genes from cross-site integrated data based on relative expression orderings

H Cai, X Li, J Li, Q Liang, W Zheng… - … Journal of Biological …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It is a basic task in high-throughput gene expression profiling studies to identify differentially
expressed genes (DEGs) between two phenotypes. But the weakly differential expression …

Detecting hidden batch factors through data-adaptive adjustment for biological effects

H Yi, AT Raman, H Zhang, GI Allen, Z Liu - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Batch effects are one of the major source of technical variations that affect the
measurements in high-throughput studies such as RNA sequencing. It has been well …