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A key but inadequately addressed issue is how to test possible differences of the networks between two groups. Group-level comparison of network properties may shed light on underlying disease mechanisms and benefit the design of drug targets for complex diseases. We therefore proposed a powerful score-based statistic to detect group difference in weighted networks, which simultaneously capture the vertex changes and edge changes.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Simulation studies indicated that the proposed network difference measure (<jats:italic>NetDifM<\/jats:italic>) was stable and outperformed other methods existed, under various sample sizes and network topology structure. One application to real data about GWAS of leprosy successfully identified the specific gene interaction network contributing to leprosy. For additional gene expression data of ovarian cancer, two candidate subnetworks, <jats:italic>PI3K-AKT<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Notch<\/jats:italic> signaling pathways, were considered and identified respectively.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The proposed method, accounting for the vertex changes and edge changes simultaneously, is valid and powerful to capture the group difference of biological networks.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12859-016-0916-x","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,2,12]],"date-time":"2016-02-12T02:04:40Z","timestamp":1455242680000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["A powerful score-based statistical test for group difference in weighted biological networks"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Jiadong","family":"Ji","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Zhongshang","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Xiaoshuai","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Fuzhong","family":"Xue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,2,12]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"916_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"56","DOI":"10.1038\/nrg2918","volume":"12","author":"AL Barabasi","year":"2011","unstructured":"Barabasi AL, Gulbahce N, Loscalzo J. 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