Help doing differential expression analysis -experimental design and gProfiler TF interpretation-
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Hi! I'm trying to do a differential expression analysis using breast cancer TCGA data.

Firstly, I split the breast cancer cohort into two groups based on the expression level in z-score of a particular gene I'm interested in, so the groups were the samples with z-score < -2 and all the others, giving two groups (n = 35 and n = 1000). Then, I used the rsem data to perform a differential expression analysis using DEseq2, but when do a PCA to compare the two groups using the 500 most differentially expressed genes, I don't get two clearly split groups.

PCA result

Then, I used gprofiler2, and one of the significative results was "TF", and when I see the term name, it appears "Factor: LUMAN; motif: CYCAGCYYCY; match class: 1".

gprofiler result

So, my questions are:

  1. Should I better compare a group with z-score < -2 versus another group with z-score > 2?
  2. What does it mean the result of gprofiler related to TF? I have tried to look for information but I think I don't understand it properly... I think that it says that genes regulated by this transcription factor are enriched, but I would like to have some confirmation.

Thanks in advance!

gProfiler mRNA Differential-expression TCGA • 689 views
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Zhenyu Zhang ★ 1.2k

Why z-score? It sounds like a weird setup to split cohort.

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Good Information Sir

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