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Fisher's Inverse \u03c72 method, which only depends on P-values from individual analyses of each dataset, has been used in a couple of medical studies. While these methods address the question from different angles, it is not clear how they compare with each other.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: We comparatively evaluate the three methods; t-based hierarchical modeling, rank products and Fisher's Inverse \u03c72 test with P-values from either the t-based or the rank product method. A simulation study shows that the rank product method, in general, has higher sensitivity and selectivity than the t-based method in both individual and meta-analysis, especially in the setting of small sample size and\/or large between-study variation. Not surprisingly, Fisher's \u03c72 method highly depends on the method used in the individual analysis. Application to real datasets demonstrates that meta-analysis achieves more reliable identification than an individual analysis, and rank products are more robust in gene ranking, which leads to a much higher reproducibility among independent studies. Though t-based meta-analysis greatly improves over the individual analysis, it suffers from a potentially large amount of false positives when P-values serve as threshold. We conclude that careful meta-analysis is a powerful tool for integrating multiple array studies.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0fxhong@jimmy.harvard.edu<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btm620","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,1,20]],"date-time":"2008-01-20T01:13:55Z","timestamp":1200791635000},"page":"374-382","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":195,"title":["A comparison of meta-analysis methods for detecting differentially expressed genes in microarray experiments"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Fangxin","family":"Hong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biostatistics, Division of Information Sciences, City of Hope National Medical Center, Beckman Research Institute, 1500 Duarte Rd, Duarte, CA 91010, USA and 2Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Kerklaan 30, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands"}]},{"given":"Rainer","family":"Breitling","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biostatistics, Division of Information Sciences, City of Hope National Medical Center, Beckman Research Institute, 1500 Duarte Rd, Duarte, CA 91010, USA and 2Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Kerklaan 30, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2008,2,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023061011440199500_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"289","DOI":"10.1111\/j.2517-6161.1995.tb02031.x","article-title":"Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach for multiple testing","volume":"57","author":"Benjamini","year":"1995","journal-title":"J. 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