minimum number of genes - gene ontology/reactome analysis
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pingu77 ▴ 20

Hello,

I have a set of 14 genes that are differentially expressed. I would like to run a gene ontology analysis and reactome/kegg pathway analysis. Is there a recommendation about the minimum number of genes that can give me reliable results?

Thank you in advance

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With only 14 genes most likely you will not achieve any statistically significant enrichment, unless ideally all of them take part in the same GO term or pathway.

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thank you for your help! GO and Reactome have identified some pathways that have significant pvalue. But I wonder if the results are reliable with such a small number of genes.

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What tool did you use? I want to point out that you are doing a multiple testing, therefore your p-values must be corrected by FDR.

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cluster profiler https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/clusterProfiler.html

The pvalue should be corrected using BH correction

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