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Is there too little variation to detect meaningful gene changes?

Hi everyone,

I wanted to get some feedback on some DESEQ analysis I am currently doing. I have tried to run my pipeline and my PCA plot looks like this. enter image description here

I have tried running it and I am getting little to no DEGS. Any advice would be greatly appericated.

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updated by Istvan Albert Istvan Albert • written by Megan • Megan

So there's no difference. Reasonable result. Triple check your protocol and sample handling, did they get mixed up? Did they get processed correctly? Do you have gene expression of a reasonable level on genes you do expect to have active? This would be evidence of good RNA extraction.

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written by karl.stamm karl.stamm

The RIN values for these samples ranged around 6.0-7.0, which I think would suggest RNA degradation. From what I am aware of, I don't think that the samples were mixed up but I will double check that.

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written by Megan • Megan

I doubt your RNA quality is the issue. It's not likely that poor quality would cause reads to align to the wrong gene. Its far more likely that your treatment has a very small effect.

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written by swbarnes2 swbarnes2

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The problem is not necessarily that there is too little variation - we can't tell how much variation is because the plot is about percentages

the problem seems to be that the variation between the groups is not consistent

Small variations can be easily detected as long as there is consistency between replicates.

H the problem may be that the intra-replicate variability is comparable to the inter-group variability

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written by Istvan Albert Istvan Albert

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