FLEXIBILITY IN GENE COEXPRESSION AT DEVELOPMENTAL AND EVOLUTIONARY TIMESCALES.

ABSTRACT: The explosion of next-generation sequencing technologies has allowed researchers to move from studying single genes to thousands of genes, and thereby to also consider the relationships within gene networks. Like others, we are interested in understanding how developmental and evolutionary forces shape the expression of individual genes, as well as the interactions among genes. In pursuing these questions, we confronted the central challenge that standard approaches fail to control the Type I error and/or have low power in the presence of high dimensionality (i.e., large number of genes) and small sample size, as in many gene expression studies. To overcome these challenges, we used random projection tests and correlation network comparisons to characterize differences in network connectiv

SUBMITTER: Fischer EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11661222 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature