How should we measure proportionality on relative gene expression data?

Correlation is ubiquitously used in gene expression analysis although its validity as an objective criterion is often questionable. If no normalization reflecting the original mRNA counts in the cells is available, correlation between genes becomes spurious. Yet the need for normalization can be byp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Erb, Ionas, Notredame, Cedric
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870310/