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Incidentally, the Mirror 's headline is not just arbitrary sensationalism; it is sensationalism with a source, a description of the storm offered by Richard Moore, a "public safety boss in North Carolina."
Typically, an arbitrary value for expression ratios (or fold-change values) is chosen to define significant differences in gene expression between conditions.
The inverse also holds true, where highly expressed genes, having less error in their measured levels, may not meet an arbitrary fold-change cut-off of 2.0 even when they are truly differentially expressed [ 12 ] . Therefore, selecting differentially regulated genes based only on a single fold change across the entire range of experimental data preferentially selects lowly expressed genes [ 8 ] . This commonly used approach does not accommodate for background noise, variability, non-specific binding, or low copy numbers- characteristics typical of microarray data which may not be homogeneously distributed.
Here “arbitrary” means that we can choose to perform any such measurement we wish by placing the partition arbitrarily in the box.
Other genes likely to be missed are genes with small ORFs (because of the arbitrary length cutoffs we used, see Materials and methods), and genes expressed transiently during development, at very low levels, and/or in cells and tissues not represented by the DGC cDNA libraries.