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Table 3 Correlation for pathway-level results between rankings within each method and the proportion of associated genes within the pathway using only the 10 larger pathways evaluated, as well as correlation with mean ranking across all programs

From: Relative performance of gene- and pathway-level methods as secondary analyses for genome-wide association studies

Group

Method

Citation

Input

Correlation with causal proportion

Correlation with mean ranking

(95% CI)

(95% CI)

Competitive

ALIGATOR

[24]

SNP P-values

−0.6 (−0.89, 0.05)

0.75 (0.22, 0.94)

GenGen

[25]

SNP P-values

−0.64 (−0.91, −0.02)

0.82 (0.41, 0.96)

GSA-SNP

[21]

SNP P-values

−0.59 (−0.89, 0.06)

0.78 (0.28, 0.94)

GSEA-SNP

[22]

Raw Genotypes

−0.6 (−0.89, 0.04)

0.73 (0.18, 0.93)

MAGENTA

[20]

SNP P-values

−0.63 (−0.9, 0)

0.9 (0.62, 0.98)

MGFM

[26]

SNP P-values

−0.53 (−0.87, 0.15)

0.7 (0.13, 0.92)

SRT

[27]

Raw Genotypes

−0.43 (−0.84, 0.27)

0.55 (−0.12, 0.88)

Self-Contained

GRASS

[23]

Raw Genotypes

−0.49 (−0.86, 0.2)

0.53 (−0.15, 0.87)

HYST

[18]

SNP P-values

−0.57 (−0.88, 0.09)

0.84 (0.46, 0.96)

PST

[11]

Raw Genotypes

−0.26 (−0.76, 0.44)

0.55 (−0.12, 0.88)