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13 - Shrinkage Estimation for SAGE Data Using a Mixture Dirichlet Prior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

Kim-Anh Do
Affiliation:
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Peter Müller
Affiliation:
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich
Marina Vannucci
Affiliation:
Rice University, Houston
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Abstract

Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) is a technique for estimating the gene expression profile of a biological sample. Any efficient inference in SAGE must be based upon efficient estimates of these gene expression profiles, which consist of the estimated relative abundances for each mRNA species present in the sample. The data from SAGE experiments are counts for each observed mRNA species, and can be modeled using a multinomial distribution with two characteristics: skewness in the distribution of relative abundances and small sample size relative to the dimension. As a result of these characteristics, a given SAGE sample will fail to capture a large number of expressed mRNA species present in the tissue. Standard empirical estimates of the relative abundances effectively ignore these missing, unobserved species, and consequently tend to also overestimate the abundance of the scarce observed species comprising a vast majority of the total. In this chapter, we review a new Bayesian procedure that yields improved estimates for the missing and scarce species without trading off much efficiency for the abundant species. The key to the procedure is the mixture Dirichlet prior, which stochastically partitions the mRNA species into abundant and scarce strata, with each stratum modeled with its own multivariate prior, a scalar multiple of a symmetric Dirichlet. Simulation studies demonstrate that the resulting shrinkage estimators have efficiency advantages over the maximum likelihood estimator for SAGE scenarios simulated.

Introduction

Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) is a method for estimating the gene expression profile of a biological sample of interest. In this chapter, we review a method introduced in Morris, Baggerly, and Coombes (2003) for obtaining Bayesian shrinkage estimates of these profiles using a fully specified probability model.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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