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Activity Number: 308
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Medical Devices and Diagnostics
Abstract #321290 View Presentation
Title: Methods for Outlier Detection Using Relative Abundance in Targeted RNASeq Applications
Author(s): Bonnie LaFleur* and Shripad Sinari and Dominic LaRoche and Kurt Michels and Dean Billheimer
Companies: and University of Arizona and HTG Molecular Diagnostics and HTG Molecular Diagnostics and University of Arizona
Keywords: RNAseq ; Compositional Data ; goodness-of-fit
Abstract:

Recent work by Lovell et al. (2015) and others have established the need to develop and interpret RNAseq data in the framework of compositional data. Compositional data involve measurements of different components (e.g., genes) where information about total amounts is lost, and inference relies only on the relative amounts. Many biologic technologies share this feature of measurements, qRT-PCR and Affymetrix GeneChip® microarray expression being two common examples. We formulate targeted sequencing assays (i.e., custom mRNA libraries) as this type of measurement system. Further, we demonstrate that relative abundance provides a more meaningful formulation than typical raw counts, and even counts-per-million (CPM) measurement scales. We demonstrate this approach in a set of technical replicates by comparing measures of absolute abundance correlations to their compositional counterparts, namely centered logratios of relative abundance and biplot graphical displays. We extend the current approaches to include statistical diagnostic tests to identify sample outliers based on proportionality of sequencing read depth within and between sequencing runs.


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