Figure 4: Calculation of the proportion of false discoveries using mock comparison.
From: RNA-seq analysis for detecting quantitative trait-associated genes

The result of proportion of false discoveries using mock comparison. As minimum number of replicates required for least square estimator (LSE) is 3 samples, 3 to 37 replicates in Human RNA-seq data and 3 to 9 replicates in bovine RNA-seq data in each group, were employed for mock comparison. The x-axis is number of biological replicate in each group and y-axis is proportion of false discoveries or number of significantly detected gene in each methods, (a,c) and (b,d), respectively, with 5% significance level. We observed suggesting approaches have smaller portion of false discoveries than existing methods especially in DESeq2.