Seurat (version 1.2.1)

pca.sig.genes: Significant genes from a PCA

Description

Returns a set of genes, based on the jackStraw analysis, that have statistically significant associations with a set of PCs.

Usage

pca.sig.genes(object, pcs.use, pval.cut = 0.1, use.full = TRUE, max.per.pc = NULL)

Arguments

object

Seurat object

pcs.use

PCS to use.

pval.cut

P-value cutoff

use.full

Use the full list of genes (from the projected PCA). Assumes that project.pca has been run. Default is TRUE

max.per.pc

Maximum number of genes to return per PC. Used to avoid genes from one PC dominating the entire analysis.

Value

A vector of genes whose p-values are statistically significant for at least one of the given PCs.