Identification of Monotonically Differentially Expressed Genes across Pathologic Stages for Cancers

Figure 2

Comparison of the identified MEGs for colon cancer by the conventional method and the proposed procedure. (a) For the monotonically decreasing genes. (b). For the monotonically increasing genes. The significance level is set at 0.1. MI: monotonically increasing; MD: monotonically decreasing; raw: the MEGs identified by the conventional method upon the original expression profiles; weighted: the MEGs identified by the proposed method upon the weighted expression profiles; MEGs: monotonically expressed genes.

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