[BioC] Normalization of array leads to decrease in number of differentially expressed genes

Kevin R. Coombes kevin.r.coombes at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 18:52:02 CEST 2012


Normalizing separately is likely to lock in a bias that would be removed 
if you normalize together.  So, I would be more inclined to believe the 
(fewer) differentially expressed genes that you find when normalizing 
together.

On 7/25/2012 6:07 AM, Cytochalasin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I performed normalization on my array data (I use qPCR array of 384
> wells), and if I normalize within replicates of all conditions(each
> condition normalized separately) , I get more differentially expressed
> genes that if I normalize all data together., How may I found that
> which result is more accurate?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
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