You Are Examining 1000 Genes to Investigate a Stress Response

Multiple Choice

You are examining 1000 genes to investigate a stress response and it seems that in 335 genes, there was some increased transcription. Why do standard statistical programs yield invalid results when analyzing the data from this study?

A) All tests will be statistically significant, given the number of tests involved.
B) Most statistical programs cannot handle this much raw data, so calculation errors are made.
C) The high number of statistical analyses will produce false positives.
D) The results will not be repeatable.