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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2025

PathwayVote: an R package for robust pathway enrichment analysis for DNA methylation data using a consensus-based voting framework.

Yinan Zheng, Feng Gao, Lifang Hou

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Yinan ZhengDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2006-7320
Feng GaoFielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1641-2101
Lifang HouDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, United States.

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Global Hypomethylation Biomarkers for Cervical Cancer Screening in Women Living with HIV in LMICsR21TW012092 · FIC · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI SILAS, OLUGBENGA AKINDELE, ZHENG, YINAN · 2021 to 2022
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NIH-NCI R21TW012092
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Abstract

motivationPathway enrichment analysis is commonly used to interpret epigenomewide association studies, yet conventional methods often rely on arbitrary thresholds and simplified CpG-gene mappings, making them sensitive to analytical choices and unable to fully leverage CpG-gene relationships Recent advances in expression quantitative trait methylation (eQTM) studies offer a rich resource to refine these mappings, but are rarely utilized in DNA methylation enrichment pipelines.

resultsWe developed PathwayVote, an R package that implements a voting-based consensus approach and leverages eQTM data to identify robustly enriched pathways. PathwayVote reduces dependence on arbitrary cutoffs and improves sensitivity and reproducibility of enrichment results. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: PathwayVote is freely available on GitHub (https://github.com/YinanZheng/PathwayVote) under the GPL-3 license and CRAN: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PathwayVote. The version of the code corresponding to this manuscript has been archived on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17209507).

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DNA MethylationEpigenomicsSoftwareConsensusCpG IslandsHumansQuantitative Trait LociVoting

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