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Drug3) ?</p> <p>Should I create a new factor (ex: MixTreatment) with 2 levels Drug1, DrugMix = (Drug2 + Drug3) and then do:</p> <pre><code>results = results(dds, contrast = c("MixTreatment" , "DrugMix")) </code></pre> <p>or alternative approach ?</p> <p>Thanks,</p> </span> </div> <span class="inplace-tags"> <a class="ptag" href="/tag/DESeq2/"> DESeq2 </a> • 177 views </span> <time itemprop="dateCreated" datetime="2025-02-23"></time> <div class="actions top-level"> <a class="add-comment ui tiny label">ADD COMMENT</a> • <a itemprop="url" href="/p/9161344/#9161344">link</a> <span class="status muted user-info"> updated 1 day ago by <a itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" href="/u/13662/"> <span itemprop="name">ATpoint</span> </a> ★ 4.7k • written 2 days ago by <a itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" href="/u/14806/"> <span itemprop="name">picasa1983</span> </a> • 0 </span> </div> <span class="diff-cont"></span> </div> </div> </div> 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@atpoint-13662 <div>Last seen 8 hours ago</div> <div>Germany</div> </div> </div> <span itemprop="text"> <p>See <a href="https://support.bioconductor.org/p/69104/#69197" rel="nofollow">DESeq2: Compare expression of one group to the mean of others</a>, <a href="https://support.bioconductor.org/p/129755/" rel="nofollow">DESeq2: Comparing one sample with the mean of all</a> for testing against an average. 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