PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Yixin Zhang
AU  - Wei Liu
AU  - Weiliang Qiu
TI  - A Model-Based Clustering via Mixture of Bayesian Hierarchical Models with Covariate Adjustment for Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes from Paired Design
AID  - 10.1101/2022.02.16.480754
DP  - 2022 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2022.02.16.480754
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/02/19/2022.02.16.480754.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/02/19/2022.02.16.480754.full
AB  - The causes of many complex human diseases are still largely unknown. Genetics plays an important role in uncovering the molecular mechanisms of complex human diseases. A key step to characterize the genetics of a complex human disease is to unbiasedly identify disease-associated gene transcripts in whole-genome scale. Confounding factors could cause false positives. Paired design, such as measuring gene expression before and after treatment for the same subject, can reduce the effect of known confounding factors. Model-based clustering, such as mixtures of Bayesian hierarchical models, has been proposed to detect gene transcripts differentially expressed between paired samples. However, not all known confounding factors can be controlled in a paired/match design. To the best of our knowledge, no clustering methods have the capacity to adjust for the effects of covariates yet. In this article, we proposed a novel mixture of Bayesian hierarchical models with covariate adjustment in identifying differentially expressed transcripts using high-throughput whole-genome data from paired design. Both simulation study and real data analysis show the good performance of the proposed methodCompeting Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.