getCandidates,VarianceFilter-method {trena} | R Documentation

## Get candidate genes using the variance filter

### Description

Get candidate genes using the variance filter

### Usage

    ## S4 method for signature 'VarianceFilter'
    getCandidates(obj)

### Arguments

`obj` | An object of class VarianceFilter

### Value

A vector containing all genes with variances less than the target gene

### See Also

`VarianceFilter`

Other getCandidate Methods: `getCandidates,FootprintFilter-method`, `getCandidates,GeneOntologyFilter-method`, `getCandidates,HumanDHSFilter-method`, `getCandidates`

### Examples

    # Using the included Alzheimer's dataset, filter out only those transcription factors with variance
    # within 50% of the variance of MEF2C
    load(system.file(package="trena", "extdata/ampAD.154genes.mef2cTFs.278samples.RData"))
    variance.filter <- VarianceFilter(mtx.assay = mtx.sub, targetGene = "MEF2C")
    tfs <- getCandidates(variance.filter)

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