PMID- 29108424 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190604 LR - 20190604 IS - 1752-8984 (Electronic) IS - 1479-1641 (Linking) VI - 15 IP - 1 DP - 2018 Jan TI - Correct microarray analysis approaches in 'Hsa-circRNA11783-2 in peripheral blood is correlated with coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus'. PG - 92-93 LID - 10.1177/1479164117739435 [doi] AB - We read with great interest the article by Li et al. The results are illuminating for understanding the relationship among Hsa-circRNA11783-2, coronary artery disease (CAD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, from our perspective, the bioinformatics analyses need further context as the statistics for differential fold changes in expression data are not explained fully. The authors seem to use unadjusted p values for detecting differentially expressed circular RNA (differentially expressed genes (DEGs)) between the control, CAD and T2DM group. Due to the high false positives caused by a large number of probes and multiple comparisons, it seems essential to analyse microarray data properly to reach a reliable result by a statistical method. Only selecting circular RNA with greater than two fold change with unadjusted p values < 0.05 in expression is not reliable and suitable for high-level microarray analysis. FAU - Li, Chenyu AU - Li C AD - Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China. FAU - Zhao, Long AU - Zhao L AD - Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China. FAU - Jiang, Wei AU - Jiang W AD - Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China. FAU - Che, Lin AU - Che L AD - Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China. FAU - Xu, Yan AU - Xu Y AD - Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China. LA - eng PT - Comment PT - Letter DEP - 20171107 PL - England TA - Diab Vasc Dis Res JT - Diabetes & vascular disease research JID - 101234011 SB - IM CON - Diab Vasc Dis Res. 2017 Nov;14(6):510-515. PMID: 28777011 MH - *Coronary Artery Disease MH - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 MH - Humans MH - Microarray Analysis OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bioinformatics OT - circular RNA OT - microarray analysis OT - statistics EDAT- 2017/11/08 06:00 MHDA- 2019/06/05 06:00 CRDT- 2017/11/08 06:00 PHST- 2017/11/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/06/05 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/11/08 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1177/1479164117739435 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Diab Vasc Dis Res. 2018 Jan;15(1):92-93. doi: 10.1177/1479164117739435. Epub 2017 Nov 7.