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eigengene

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, genetics, mathematics, medicine, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, sciences

Examples

  • 1999, Orly Alter et al., ‘‘Singular Value Decomposition for Gene Expression Data Processing and Modeling.’’ In: After the Genome V (October 6–10, 1999, Jackson Hole, WY), published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). We describe the use of singular value decomposition in transforming gene expression data from genes/arrays space to ‘‘eigengenes’’/‘‘eigenarrays’’ space, where the eigengenes and eigenarrays are unique orthonormal superpositions of the genes and arrays, respectively.

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History

Etymology

From eigen- + gene.