Meta-analysis for pathway enrichment analysis when combining multiple genomic studies.
BACKGROUND
Many pathway analysis (or gene set enrichment analysis) methods have been developed to identify enriched pathways under different biological states within a genomic study. As more and more microarray datasets accumulate, meta-analysis methods have also been developed to integrate information among multiple studies. Currently, most meta-analysis methods for combining genomic studies focus on biomarker detection and meta-analysis for pathway analysis has not been systematically pursued.


RESULTS
We investigated two approaches of meta-analysis for pathway enrichment (MAPE) by combining statistical significance across studies at the gene level (MAPE_G) or at the pathway level (MAPE_P). Simulation results showed increased statistical power of meta-analysis approaches compared to a single study analysis and showed complementary advantages of MAPE_G and MAPE_P under different scenarios. We also developed an integrated method (MAPE_I) that incorporates advantages of both approaches. Comprehensive simulations and applications to real data on drug response of breast cancer cell lines and lung cancer tissues were evaluated to compare the performance of three MAPE variations. MAPE_P has the advantage of not requiring gene matching across studies. When MAPE_G and MAPE_P show complementary advantages, the hybrid version of MAPE_I is generally recommended.


BACKGROUND
http://www.biostat.pitt.edu/bioinfo/


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ctseng@pitt.edu


BACKGROUND
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Shen
Kui
K
Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Tseng
George C
GC
D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods; D016678:Genome; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*
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