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Another drawback is that, because they perform just one statistical test for each individual experiment, they may not fully exploit the potentially large number of samples within each study.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We propose a novel bi-level meta-analysis approach that employs the additive method and the Central Limit Theorem within each individual experiment and also across multiple experiments. We prove that the bi-level framework is robust against bias, less sensitive to outliers than other methods, and more sensitive to small changes in signal. For comparative analysis, we demonstrate that the intra-experiment analysis has more power than the equivalent statistical test performed on a single large experiment. For pathway analysis, we compare the proposed framework versus classical meta-analysis approaches (Fisher\u2019s, Stouffer\u2019s and the additive method) as well as against a dedicated pathway meta-analysis package (MetaPath), using 1252 samples from 21 datasets related to three human diseases, acute myeloid leukemia (9 datasets), type II diabetes (5 datasets) and Alzheimer\u2019s disease (7 datasets). Our framework outperforms its competitors to correctly identify pathways relevant to the phenotypes. The framework is sufficiently general to be applied to any type of statistical meta-analysis.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: The R scripts are available on demand from the authors.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0sorin@wayne.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary Information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv588","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,16]],"date-time":"2015-10-16T00:48:17Z","timestamp":1444956497000},"page":"409-416","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["A novel bi-level meta-analysis approach: applied to biological pathway analysis"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Tin","family":"Nguyen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Science and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rebecca","family":"Tagett","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Science and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Michele","family":"Donato","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Science and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Cristina","family":"Mitrea","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Science and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sorin","family":"Draghici","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Computer Science and"},{"name":"2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020110304321900_btv588-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"D991","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/gks1193","article-title":"NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets\u2014update","volume":"41","author":"Barrett","year":"2013","journal-title":"Nucleic Acids Res."},{"key":"2023020110304321900_btv588-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11023","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0504921102","article-title":"Genome-wide expression profiling of human blood reveals biomarkers for Huntington\u2019s disease","volume":"102","author":"Borovecki","year":"2005","journal-title":"Proc. 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