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Question: q value in MutSigCV analysis
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2.5 years ago by
wenbinm • 20
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wenbinm • 20 wrote:

Hi there,

I just used MutSigCV to analyze triple negative breast cancer mutation data from COSMIC. The result it gave me shows there is only one gene whose q value is less than 1.

I notice that in "Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. Nature, 517(7536), p.576." they also used MutSigCV to analyze COSMIC data and "only 19 genes has q value less than 1".

So what's the point of using q value if nearly all genes have q value equal to 1?

Thank you all!
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modified 2.5 years ago by h.mon ♦ 32k • written 2.5 years ago by wenbinm • 20
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2.5 years ago by
h.mon ♦ 32k
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h.mon ♦ 32k wrote:

So what's the point of using q value if nearly all genes have q value equal to 1?

To avoid getting false positives. You are performing multiple tests (thousands of them, probably), and you expect by chance alone 5% of them will be false positives. q-values corrects for this multiple testing. In general, it is a good practice, but also depends on your aims, as being more strict about false positives also leads to decreased power, i.e., true effects may be deemed statistically non-significant.

Some references:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_discovery_rate (has links to several key statistical papers, in case you want to delve on this)

http://www.nonlinear.com/support/progenesis/comet/faq/v2.0/pq-values.aspx

Differential Expression In Rna-Seq Experiment

http://www.biostathandbook.com/multiplecomparisons.html
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Thank you for your quick response. It really helps!

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