Table 5

Application of gene set analysis methods to leukemia data [22].

Top Pathways

NP

AP


GSEA-Category

Glycolysis/Gluconeogenesis

<5e-05

<5e-05

Focal adhesion

<5e-05

<5e-05

Tight junction

<5e-05

<5e-05

Leukocyte transendothelial migration

<5e-05

<5e-05

Regulation of actin cytoskeleton

<5e-05

<5e-05

......

...

...


GSEA-limma

Hematopoietic cell lineage

<5e-05

0.034

B cell receptor signaling pathway

<5e-05

0.034

Glutathione metabolism

0.017

1

Glycolysis/Gluconeogenesis

0.025

1

Natural killer cell mediated cytotoxicity

0.028

1

......

...

...


SAFE

Natural killer cell mediated cytotoxicity

0.0052

1

Glycolysis/Gluconeogenesis

0.00835

1

Galactose metabolism

0.0128

1

Pyrimidine metabolism

0.0333

1

Cell cycle

0.0353

1

......

...

...


GlobalTest

Toll-like receptor signaling pathway

<5e-05

<5e-05

Jak-STAT signaling pathway

<5e-05

<5e-05

Focal adhesion

<5e-05

<5e-05

Tight junction

<5e-05

<5e-05

Leukocyte transendothelial migration

<5e-05

<5e-05

......

...

...


PCOT2

Jak-STAT signaling pathway

<5e-05

0.001

Glycolysis Gluconeogenesis

<5e-05

0.001

Focal adhesion

<5e-05

0.001

Tight junction

<5e-05

0.001

Hematopoietic cell lineage

<5e-05

0.001

......

...

...


sigPathway

Arachidonic acid metabolism

<5e-05

0.001

Metabolism of xenobiotics by cytochrome P450

<5e-05

0.004

Glutathione metabolism

<5e-05

0.009

Cell cycle

0.0001

0.016

Starch and sucrose metabolism

0.0002

0.023

......

...

...


Top five altered gene sets determined by each of the six analysis methods. NP indicates the nominal p-values and AP indicates the FDR adjusted p-values.

Song and Black BMC Bioinformatics 2008 9:502   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-502

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