I am beginning my PhD in transcriptome (affymetrix assay) analysis.
I have an expression matrix (trans_data : 32000 genes x 620 samples), and a clinical matrix (clin_data : 620 samples x 42 clinical caracteristics). The samples belong to 1 of the 4 populations A-B-C-D. I'd like to draw comparision of gene expression between population A and B without triying to bind the two matrix.
I'd like to optain a matrix with mean expression of each genes in the two population, then pvalue, then adjusted p value.
Then I could select only differentially expressed genes (padj < 0,05).
thanks for your help. Alain