eigengene

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English

Eigengenes following Alter et al. PNAS 2000 and Alter and Golub PNAS 2006

Etymology

From eigen- +‎ gene.

Noun

eigengene (plural eigengenes)

  1. (genetics, mathematics, physics) One of a set of right singular vectors of a genes x samples matrix that tabulates, e.g., the mRNA or gene expression of the genes across the samples.

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