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  • Bioinformatics
  • Statistical Genetics

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  • Pathway analysis is crucial in genomic studies.
  • Current methods often focus on single responses, limiting complex disease analysis.
  • Existing multi-response methods struggle with high-dimensional genomic data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel multi-response pathway analysis approach.
  • To enable statistical inference for high-dimensional genomic data (dimension > sample size).
  • To identify pathways associated with multiple expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs).

Main Methods:

  • Introduction of a multi-response pathway analysis method.
  • Establishment of asymptotic properties for the test statistic.
  • Theoretical investigation of statistical power.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method performs well in identifying important pathways.
  • Successfully handles situations where the number of features exceeds the sample size.
  • Demonstrates effectiveness in identifying pathways influencing multiple eQTLs.

Conclusions:

  • The developed approach is suitable for complex diseases with multiple response variables.
  • Offers a robust statistical framework for high-dimensional genomic pathway analysis.
  • Provides a powerful tool for uncovering complex genetic architectures related to multiple eQTLs.