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Exprimental design for DESeq2 or edger

Hi

I have 3 different patients : one cancer and two controls

But for cancer I have two time points

I want to know differentially expressed genes beween these time points

I even don't know how to phrase this to search in google

Samples             condition
CS001_time point 1  cancer
CS001_time point 2  cancer
HC002               control
HC003               control

Please give me an idea how I get differentially expressed genes between these time points

Thank you in advance

deseq2 edger

With only one replicate for each time point, there's not a lot you can do that's mathematically justifiable.

Sorry what if we have two technical replicates for each of these I mean actually I have 2 rounds of sequencing to give greater read depth for each of these

like

Samples                       condition
CS001_time point 1_1    cancer
CS001_time point 1_2    cancer
CS001_time point 2_1    cancer
CS001_time point 2_2    cancer
HC002_1                        control
HC002_2                       control
HC003_1                       control
HC003_2                       control

Technical replicates are usually collapsed, and not treated as biological replicates in the case of differential expression.

You can't sequence the same thing over and over again and pretend you have a handle on biological variation.

Sorry does it make any sense to first compare CS001_t1 and CS002 versus HC002 and HC003

then CS001_t2 and CS002 versus HC002 and HC003

and then take uncommon differentially expressed genes as related to time points?

I mean comparing time point 1 plus to another cancer sample versus two controls in one go

and comparing time point 2 plus to another cancer sample versus two controls in next go

And finally comparing the results

You can't play math games to get around a lack of replicates.

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