Analyzing illumina gene expression microarray data from different tissues: methodological aspects of data analysis in the metaxpress consortium.

Microarray profiling of gene expression is widely applied in molecular biology and functional genomics. Experimental and technical variations make meta-analysis of different studies challenging. In a total of 3358 samples, all from German population-based cohorts, we investigated the effect of data...

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Main Authors: Claudia Schurmann, Katharina Heim, Arne Schillert, Stefan Blankenberg, Maren Carstensen, Marcus Dörr, Karlhans Endlich, Stephan B Felix, Christian Gieger, Harald Grallert, Christian Herder, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Georg Homuth, Thomas Illig, Jochen Kruppa, Thomas Meitinger, Christian Müller, Matthias Nauck, Annette Peters, Rainer Rettig, Michael Roden, Konstantin Strauch, Uwe Völker, Henry Völzke, Simone Wahl, Henri Wallaschofski, Philipp S Wild, Tanja Zeller, Alexander Teumer, Holger Prokisch, Andreas Ziegler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23236413/pdf/?tool=EBI