RNA-seq data, normality test, stat test
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Hi friends, Do you know how to do a normality test for RNA-seq data set with 60 columns of patients ( 3 groups of phenotypes) and 200 rows of genes?

Also, do you know how to do parametric/non-parametric stat tests for this data? all the documentations on the internet are for one column, but my data has 60 columns.

Thanks

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Somewhat duplicate of Normality test for rna seq data

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There is no point in testing your data for normality, it will fail any test for normality. In general, RNAseq data is not to be normally distributed.

The distribution of counts for one gene across patients is generally assumed to be distributed according the the Negative Binomial Distribution.

The distribution of expressions in one patient across genes (which appears to be what you are talking about as you are talking about your columns), is less well studied, but at least one paper suggests a bimodal mixture of lognormal distributions.

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