[BioC] PCA to remove batch effect.

Richard Friedman friedman at cancercenter.columbia.edu
Tue Dec 13 17:29:18 CET 2011


Dear Fabrice,

	They also recommend and give references to a program called ComBat
which removes batch effects.

Best wishes,
Rich
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On Dec 13, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Fabrice Tourre wrote:

> Dear Rich,
>
> Thank you for your suggestions.
>
> In their paper, the suggested using sva.
>
> I have try sva, but it seems that SVA cannot output the new expression
> index without batch effect.
>
> Thank you
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Richard Friedman
> <friedman at cancercenter.columbia.edu> wrote:
>> Dear Fabrice,
>>
>>        The following paper from Rafael Irizarry's lab will tell you  
>> what you
>> need to know:
>>
>> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20838408
>>  Leek JT, Scharpf RB, Bravo HC, Simcha D, Langmead B, Johnson WE,  
>> Geman D,
>> Baggerly K, Irizarry RA. Tackling the widespread and critical  
>> impact of
>> batch effects in high-throughput data. Nat Rev Genet. 2010 Oct; 
>> 11(10):733-9.
>> Epub 2010 Sep 14.
>>  PubMed PMID: 20838408.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Rich
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 13, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Fabrice Tourre wrote:
>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> In my mrcroarray data, there is batch effect. But I am not very  
>>> clear
>>> what kind of batch effect in it. I want to using PCA to remove batch
>>> effect, but I am confused how to from the raw expression data to  
>>> get a
>>> new expression data without batch effect in it.
>>>
>>> Any suggestion will be welcome.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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