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. 2010 Feb 18;11:94. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-94

Table 1.

Definition of true and false positive rates. Synopsis of the rules for calling true/false positives and negatives, which take into account the sign of the direction of differential expression: "+" for over-expression in UHR, "-" for over-expression in Brain.

mRNA-Seq
Non-DE DE + DE-
Non-DE TN FP FP N
qRT-PCR DE + FN TP FP P
DE- FN FP TP

The true positive rate (TPR) is estimated as TP/P and the false positive rate (FPR) as FP/N.