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Dilution/Mixture Study Bill Craven, GeneLogic, Inc. Motivated by a desire for a data set to be used as a baseline to characterize analysis and normalization methods We wanted to examine: Post-hybridization variability (i.e. scanner effects)
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Dilution/Mixture StudyBill Craven, GeneLogic, Inc. • Motivated by a desire for a data set to be used as a baseline to characterize analysis and normalization methods • We wanted to examine: • Post-hybridization variability (i.e. scanner effects) • Effects on differential expression estimates compared to known dilution and/or mixing ratios
Design • Dilutions and mixtures taken out of master IVT preparations pooled for two samples: human liver (sample A) and a central nervous system cell line (sample B). These were chosen to maximize independence of expression. • Each dilution or mixture had five replicate HGU95A assays run on five scanners. • The concentration of each material is characterized by the number of ug of labeled cRNA in the individual hybridization solutions. • All examples had Genelogic’s standard bacterial spikeins added at their nominal concentrations to give an absolute control.
Initial Observations • A fundamental assumption behind our dilution study was that the assays are independent of total cRNA in the hybridization mixture. • A quick examination of the raw intensities of the spikeins tells us this isn’t the case; there appears to be a chemical saturation effect whereby at lower total cRNA concentrations, the spike-in signals are higher (this is confirmed at the probe level). • Furthermore, this effect introduces significant non-linearities to the expression in the bulk of the sample observed.
Median spike-in Intensities vs total RNA MAS 5 Intensity Total RNA, mg 11 Randomly selected probe set medians vs total RNA MAS 5 Intensity Total RNA, mg
Log2 Intensities, M vs A: Liver 1.25 ug – Liver 20 ug, scanner 1 Spike-in Nominal Ratio Spike-ins Nominal Ratio = log2(1.25/20)
Looking Forward • Further Work: • Complete analysis of dilutions to characterize and normalize out the observed non-linearities • Check observed fold changes against nominal ratios for various methods of analysis • Finally, check for unexpected effects in the mixture cases, indicating some background competition • Acknowledgments: • Terry Speed, Harry Zuzan, Francois Collin for improvements in the design • Uwe Scherf, Yasmin Beazer-Barclay for making the wet-lab part happen!