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Under these conditions, our method has a false-positive rate somewhat greater than nominal and self-consistent normalization without local regression performs slightly better than that with local regression.
The ROC-derived threshold correctly classifies the signal for Laminin-5, γ2 as 'absent', whereas the mean- or median -derived thresholds would produce a false-positive result.
Whether due to chance fixation, selection or epistasis, non-syntenic associations of the sort illustrated in Figure 7are a major source of both false-positive and false-negativeresults in using RI sets for mapping.
The conclusion is that it is possible and sensible to calibrate the test with respect to estimates of the false-positive and false-negative rates.
Once analysis criteria and an estimate of the false-positive rate had been established, it was possible to confidently assess differences in the gene-expression patterns between the cerebellum and the amygdala.