Batch Effect Behind Species-Specific Results? | The Scientist Magazine® - 0 views
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Lottie Peppers on 28 May 15With a dozen or so 140-character dispatches (including three heat maps), Gilad suggested the results published in PNAS were an anomaly-a result of how the tissue samples were sequenced in different batches. If this "batch effect" was eliminated, he proposed, mouse and human tissues clustered in a tissue-specific manner, confirming previous results rather than supporting the conclusions reported by the Mouse ENCODE team.