Table 5 The results of the joint pathway analysis from discriminating metabolites between EG and RG groups.

From: NMR-based metabolomics in pediatric drug resistant epilepsy – preliminary results

No.

Pathway name

Total

Hits

p-value

−log(p)

Holm p

Impact

1

Glycine serine and threonine metabolism

68

2

0.013

4.317

1

0.708

2

Citrate cycle (TCA cycle)

50

1

0.136

1.989

1

0.576

3

Glutathione metabolism

75

1

0.199

1.611

1

0.133

4

Glyoxylate and dicarboxylate metabolism

53

2

0.008

4.805

0.654

0.057

5

Cyanoamino acid metabolism

12

1

0.034

3.375

1

0

6

Arginine and proline metabolism

102

1

0.263

1.333

1

0.016

7

Primary bile acid biosynthesis

63

1

0.169

1.772

1

0

8

Pyruvate metabolism

64

1

0.172

1.758

1

0

9

Porphyrin and chlorophyll metabolism

70

1

0.187

1.675

1

0

10

Aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis

87

1

0.228

1.476

1

0

11

Glycolysis/Gluconeogenesis

91

1

0.237

1.435

1

0

  1. Legend: Total represents the total number of compounds involved in a pathway, Hits is the actual number of matched metabolites in one pathway, Holm p is Holm-Bonferroni adjusted p value and Impact is the pathway impact value from a pathway topology analysis.