RANKED NOT SELECTED. “The first functional enrichment analysis methods identified pathways that were overrepresented within a list of differentially expressed genes and were rapidly followed by the gene set enrichment approach where a ranked, rather than a selected, list of genes was used to find associations between phenotypes and cellular functions.”
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