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Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) integrate GWAS and expression reference panels to identify the associations at gene level with tissue specificity, potentially improving the interpretability. However, the list of individual genes identified from univariate TWAS contains little unifying biological theme, leaving the underlying mechanisms largely elusive. In this paper, we propose a novel multivariate TWAS method that Incorporates Pathway or gene Set information, namely TIPS, to identify genes and pathways most associated with complex polygenic traits. We jointly modeled the imputation and association steps in TWAS, incorporated a sparse group lasso penalty in the model to induce selection at both gene and pathway levels and developed an expectation-maximization algorithm to estimate the parameters for the penalized likelihood. We applied our method to three different complex traits: systolic and diastolic blood pressure, as well as a brain aging biomarker white matter brain age gap in UK Biobank and identified critical biologically relevant pathways and genes associated with these traits. These pathways cannot be detected by traditional univariate TWAS + pathway enrichment analysis approach, showing the power of our model. We also conducted comprehensive simulations with varying heritability levels and genetic architectures and showed our method outperformed other established TWAS methods in feature selection, statistical power, and prediction. 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