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Novel functional view of the crocidolite asbestos-treated A549 human lung epithelial transcriptome reveals an intricate network of pathways with opposing functions

Joan M Hevel1,2 email, Laura C Olson-Buelow1 email, Balasubramanian Ganesan2 email, John R Stevens3 email, Jared P Hardman1 email and Ann E Aust1 email

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University, Logan, USA

Center for Integrated BioSystems, Utah State University, Logan, USA

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University, Logan, USA

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:376doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-376

Published: 7 August 2008

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Low variability in the dataset. A comparison of the RMA expression values for the 54,675 probe sets on each of the six arrays. The tighter relationships within the Control and Treated groups are indicative of a data set with low variability. This low variability allowed the identification of a large number (2,546) of statistically significantly differentially expressed genes.

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List of genes for which expression was increased or decreased two-fold or greater.

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Global test to identify specific gene ontologies related to DNA repair and damage. A global test (Goeman et al., 2004; Goeman et al., 2005; Goeman and Oosting 2007) was used to identify specific gene ontologies related to DNA repair and damage. The p-values for each of the GO terms (abbreviated as the last four digits of each ontology's identifier) has been overlaid onto the hierarchical tree where the darkest blue node represents a p = 0.15 and the lightest represents a p = 0.016.

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