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means. The remaining sets possess some number <strong>of</strong> probes that do show a significant difference<br />

in the class means and thus they are considered to be inf<strong>or</strong>mative. One group contains sets <strong>of</strong><br />

probes in which every probe demonstrates a significant difference in class means. This<br />

maximally and consistently inf<strong>or</strong>mative sub-group is labeled ‘Differentially Expressed’ (DE), and<br />

here the associated ProbeSet must also show differential expression. The consistency in<br />

individual probe and aggregated set behavi<strong>or</strong> is because there is strong conc<strong>or</strong>dance in the pattern<br />

<strong>of</strong> differential expression in the probes belonging to the set. The remaining group <strong>of</strong> inf<strong>or</strong>mative<br />

probes is labeled as the ‘Signal’ categ<strong>or</strong>y. In this group, one <strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e probes have a significant<br />

difference in expression from the class mean, that is, does contain a signal, but others in the set do<br />

not. Because <strong>of</strong> this, the associated ProbeSet mean may <strong>or</strong> may not show a statistical difference<br />

from the class mean, depending on the respective values <strong>of</strong> the component probes.<br />

The underlying goal <strong>of</strong> the BaFL pipeline is to eliminate probes which may produce variant<br />

results because <strong>of</strong> underlying transcript variation <strong>or</strong> probe design issues. The resulting<br />

measurements should be m<strong>or</strong>e reliable and thereby a better interpretation <strong>of</strong> the mRNA transcript<br />

concentration. However, there still exists uncharacterized transcript events which may undermine<br />

the signal intensity interpretation [20]. Analysis f<strong>or</strong> differential expression at the probe level<br />

allows the investigat<strong>or</strong> the opp<strong>or</strong>tunity to identify probes which demonstrate inconsistent<br />

measurements with the remaining probe within the ProbeSet. Three hundred and twenty-five<br />

ProbeSets were identified to further classify whether uncharacterized transcript events may be<br />

occurring. These ProbeSets were considered “Signal’ since one <strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e probes, but not every<br />

probe, demonstrated a significant difference in class means. However, after aggregation, the<br />

ProbeSet values did demonstrate significant differences in the class means. These ProbeSets<br />

appear to represent transcript regions <strong>of</strong> most imp<strong>or</strong>tance to the disease state, given the aggregate<br />

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