[BioC] edgeR: plotBCV, gof() and plotMDS, for outlier detection

[Sindre Lee]

Hello!
I have been struggling with one of the skeletal muscle biopsies in my 
study. The RNA quality is very good and looking at tissue specific gene 
expression they are all there, although some with very different values 
for some genes compared the other biopsies.

Please see the attached plots using edgeR. The gof() calculation gave 0 
"TRUE" in the $outlier table.


Can anyone shed some light on this? Thank you very much.
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