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So far, most of the genomic studies have been conducted in a single domain, e.g., by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) or microarray gene expression investigation. A combined analysis of disease susceptibility genes across multiple platforms at the pathway level is an urgent need because it can reveal more reliable and more biologically important information.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>We performed an integrative pathway analysis of a GWAS dataset and a microarray gene expression dataset in prostate cancer. We obtained a comprehensive pathway annotation set from knowledge-based public resources, including KEGG pathways and the prostate cancer candidate gene set, and gene sets specifically defined based on cross-platform information. By leveraging on this pathway collection, we first searched for significant pathways in the GWAS dataset using four methods, which represent two broad groups of pathway analysis approaches. The significant pathways identified by each method varied greatly, but the results were more consistent within each method group than between groups. Next, we conducted a gene set enrichment analysis of the microarray gene expression data and found 13 pathways with cross-platform evidence, including \"Fc gamma R-mediated phagocytosis\" (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>GWAS<\/jats:sub> = 0.003, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>expr<\/jats:sub> &lt; 0.001, and <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>combined<\/jats:sub> = 6.18 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>-8<\/jats:sup>), \"regulation of actin cytoskeleton\" (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>GWAS<\/jats:sub> = 0.003, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>expr<\/jats:sub> = 0.009, and <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>combined<\/jats:sub> = 3.34 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>-4<\/jats:sup>), and \"Jak-STAT signaling pathway\" (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>GWAS<\/jats:sub> = 0.001, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>expr<\/jats:sub> = 0.084, and <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>combined<\/jats:sub> = 8.79 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>-4<\/jats:sup>).<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Our results provide evidence at both the genetic variation and expression levels that several key pathways might have been involved in the pathological development of prostate cancer. Our framework that employs gene expression data to facilitate pathway analysis of GWAS data is not only feasible but also much needed in studying complex disease.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1752-0509-6-s3-s13","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,12,17]],"date-time":"2012-12-17T13:15:01Z","timestamp":1355750101000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Integrative pathway analysis of genome-wide association studies and gene expression data in prostate cancer"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Peilin","family":"Jia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhongming","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,12,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"998_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"212","DOI":"10.3322\/caac.20121","volume":"61","author":"R Siegel","year":"2011","unstructured":"Siegel R, Ward E, Brawley O, Jemal A: Cancer statistics, 2011: the impact of eliminating socioeconomic and racial disparities on premature cancer deaths. 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