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1 Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2 Bioinformatics Laboratory, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
3 Neurogenetics Laboratory, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Since the introduction of serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) as a method to quantitatively analyze the differential expression of genes, several statistical tests have been published for the pairwise comparison of SAGE libraries. Testing the difference between the number of specific tags found in two SAGE libraries is hampered by the fact that each SAGE library is only one measurement: the necessary information on biological variation or experimental precision is not available. In the currently available tests, a measure of this variance is obtained from simulation or based on the properties of the tag distribution. To help the user of SAGE to decide between these tests, five different pairwise tests have been compared by determining the critical values, that is, the lowest number of tags that, given an observed number of tags in one library, needs to be found in the other library to result in a significant P value. The five tests included in this comparison are SAGE300, the tests described by Madden et al. (Oncogene 15: 1079–1085, 1997) and by Audic and Claverie (Genome Res 7: 986–995, 1997), Fisher’s Exact test, and the Z test, which is equivalent to the chi-squared test. The comparison showed that, for SAGE libraries of equal as well as different size, SAGE300, Fisher’s Exact test, Z test, and the Audic and Claverie test have critical values within 1.5% of each other. This indicates that these four tests will give essentially the same results when applied to SAGE libraries. The Madden test, which can only be used for libraries of similar size, is, with 25% higher critical values, more conservative, probably because the variance measure in its test statistic is not appropriate for hypothesis testing. The consequences for the choice of SAGE library sizes are discussed.
critical values; hypothesis test; two-sided test; library size; power; serial analysis of gene expression
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