Comparing Statistical Tests for Differential Network Analysis of Gene Modules.

Frontiers in Genetics
Jaron ArbetKaterina Kechris

Abstract

Genes often work together to perform complex biological processes, and "networks" provide a versatile framework for representing the interactions between multiple genes. Differential network analysis (DiNA) quantifies how this network structure differs between two or more groups/phenotypes (e.g., disease subjects and healthy controls), with the goal of determining whether differences in network structure can help explain differences between phenotypes. In this paper, we focus on gene co-expression networks, although in principle, the methods studied can be used for DiNA for other types of features (e.g., metabolome, epigenome, microbiome, proteome, etc.). Three common applications of DiNA involve (1) testing whether the connections to a single gene differ between groups, (2) testing whether the connection between a pair of genes differs between groups, or (3) testing whether the connections within a "module" (a subset of 3 or more genes) differs between groups. This article focuses on the latter, as there is a lack of studies comparing statistical methods for identifying differentially co-expressed modules (DCMs). Through extensive simulations, we compare several previously proposed test statistics and a new p-norm difference t...Continue Reading

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GSNCA
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HD
multtest R package
WGCNA R package
mclust R
WGCNA
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