We present new statistical approaches for identification of proteins with expression levels that are significantly changed when applying meta-analysis to two or more independent experiments. We showed that the Euclidean distance measure has reduced risk of false positives compared to the rank product method. Our Ψ-ranking method has advantages over the traditional fold-change approach by incorporating both the fold-change direction as well as the p-value. In addition, the second novel method, Π-ranking, considers the ratio of the fold-change and thus integrates all three parameters. We further improved the latter by introducing our third technique, Σ-ranking, which combines all three parameters in a balanced nonparametric approach.
Journal article
Proteomics
07/2013
13
2072 - 2076
Bipolar disorder, Fold-change, Meta analysis, Statistics, Technology, Bipolar Disorder, Blood Proteins, Case-Control Studies, Humans, Immunoassay, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Models, Theoretical, Proteomics, Research Design, Statistics, Nonparametric