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DESeq pvalue>0.05 qvalue=1

Hi,

I try to DESeq find the differentially expressed genes in two samples.

The result is all the pvalue>0.05, and qvalue=1.

Any suggestion or advice?

Thanks for great help!

Yue

p-value q-value deseq

Do you have replicates ?

Hi poisonAlien,

Thank you for your post.

I do not have replicates.

Any suggestions or advice?

Thanks for help!

Yue

The format of my file is:

id    testis    soma
NV31416-RA    765    35458
TCONS_00021942    32896    678
NV12924-RA    2    20446
NV30843-RA    98    13609

As Devon has replied below, without replicates its hard to do any differential expression. Maybe you could just use some sort of cutoff values for fold change to filter them.

Hi Yue,

If you wish to post large files as part of an question or comment please use http://pastebin.org or similar rather than pasting hundreds of lines into the text box. We didn't need all the lines to understand the format of your file!

Thanks, everyone.

Thanks for everyone's great help!

2 answers

Without biological replicates you have little hope of finding anything significant. Even if you did, the p-values in such comparisons need to be taken with a large grain of salt.

As Devon and poisonAlien have said, you can't calculate usable p-values without replicates. Thus, I would suggest doing a simple fold change calculation with a fold change cutoff for filtering. However, this should only be used for exploratory purposes and would not be publishable without biological replicates.

Totally agree!

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