A FLEXIBLE NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH TO FIND CANDIDATE GENES ASSOCIATED WITH DISEASE IN MICROARRAY EXPERIMENTS

Very often biologists are interested to know the biological function of a particular gene. Its true biological function may depend on other genes. Finding other genes in the same biological pathway of that gene may enhance further understanding of its biological function. Therefore, we are interested in finding other candidate genes whose expression values are highly correlated with that of a "seed" gene. The "seed" gene, which is known and …