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We present here a novel approach, called Minimum distance-based Enrichment Analysis for Genetic Association (MEAGA), with the potential to address both of these important concerns.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: MEAGA performs enrichment analysis using graphical algorithms to identify sub-graphs among genes and measure their closeness in interaction database. It also incorporates a statistic summarizing the numbers and total distances of the sub-graphs, depicting the overlap between observed genetic signals and defined function\/pathway gene-sets. MEAGA uses sampling technique to approximate empirical and multiple testing-corrected P-values. We show in simulation studies that MEAGA is more powerful compared to count-based strategies in identifying disease-associated functions\/pathways, and the increase in power is influenced by the shortest distances among associated genes in the interactome. We applied MEAGA to the results of a meta-analysis of psoriasis using Immunochip datasets, and showed that associated genes are significantly enriched in immune-related functions and closer with each other in the protein\u2013protein interaction network.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: \u00a0http:\/\/genome.sph.umich.edu\/wiki\/MEAGA<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: tsoi.teen@gmail.com or goncalo@umich.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu799","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,6]],"date-time":"2014-12-06T02:51:31Z","timestamp":1417834291000},"page":"1243-1249","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Graphical algorithm for integration of genetic and biological data: proof of principle using psoriasis as a model"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Lam C.","family":"Tsoi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, and 3Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"James T.","family":"Elder","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, and 3Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, USA"},{"name":"1 Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, and 3Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Goncalo R.","family":"Abecasis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, and 3Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023051309022629300_btu799-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"99","DOI":"10.1186\/s12918-014-0099-x","article-title":"KeyPathwayMiner 4.0: condition-specific pathway analysis by combining multiple omics studies and networks with Cytoscape","volume":"8","author":"Alcaraz","year":"2014","journal-title":"BMC Syst. 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