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Table 9 The first 10 enriched pathways using the whole list of relevant DEGs obtained from the Alzheimer GSE16759 data set without using genes’ group classification

From: A statistical network pre-processing method to improve relevance and significance of gene lists in microarray gene expression studies

PathwayName

Pvalue

FDRC

BonfC

\(|lg_{2}(P_{value})|\)

\(|lg_{2}(FDR(P_{value})|\)

\(|lg_{2}Bonf(P_{value})|\)

(1) Post-translational protein modification

8.20E-05

0.0390

0.0390

4.68

4.68

4.68

(2) Metabolism of proteins

1.67E−04

0.0396

0.0793

4.66

3.66

3.66

(3) Neurophilin interactions with VEGF and VEGFR

7.62E−04

0.1208

0.3625

3.05

1.46

1.46

(4) Disease

0.0013

0.1574

0.6299

2.67

0.67

0.67

(5) VEGF binds to VEGFR leading to receptor dimerization

0.0028

0.2679

1

1.90

0.00

0.00

(6) VEGF ligand–receptor interactions

0.0028

0.2233

1

2.16

0.00

0.00

(7) Signaling by VEGF

0.0029

0.1976

1

2.34

0.00

0.00

(8) Synthesis of 5-eicosatetraenoic acids

0.0047

0.2827

1

1.82

0.00

0.00

(9) Signaling by receptor tyrosine Kinases

0.0047

0.2534

1

1.98

0.00

0.00

(10) Synthesis of leukotrienes (LT) and Eoxins (EX)

0.0049

0.2352

1

2.09

0.00

0.00

  1. The FDRC indicates the corrected p value using FDR statistical corrector. The BonfC represents the corrected p value using Bonferroni statistical corrector. Finally, the last three columns contain the \(|lg_{2}(\cdot )|\) of each p value, for ease comparison