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Currently, most meta-analysis methods for combining genomic studies focus on biomarker detection and meta-analysis for pathway analysis has not been systematically pursued.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>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.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: \u00a0http:\/\/www.biostat.pitt.edu\/bioinfo\/<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0ctseng@pitt.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btq148","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,4,22]],"date-time":"2010-04-22T00:26:11Z","timestamp":1271895971000},"page":"1316-1323","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":77,"title":["Meta-analysis for pathway enrichment analysis when combining multiple genomic studies"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Kui","family":"Shen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, 2 Department of Biostatistics and 3 Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA"}]},{"given":"George C.","family":"Tseng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, 2 Department of Biostatistics and 3 Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA"},{"name":"1 Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, 2 Department of Biostatistics and 3 Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA"},{"name":"1 Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, 2 Department of Biostatistics and 3 Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,4,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012507513164300_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"286","DOI":"10.1214\/07-AOAS146","article-title":"A statistical framework for testing functional categories in microarray data","volume":"2","author":"Barry","year":"2008","journal-title":"Ann. 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