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. 2007 Oct 16;8:392. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-392

Table 3.

Summary of comparison of results from ToppGene with other gene prioritization applications

A. Random cross-validation
ENDEAVOUR ToppGene

AUC (area under curve) 86.6 91.6
True positive rate/false positive rate 74/90 77/90

B. Locus region cross-validation

PROSPECTR SUSPECTS ToppGene

Percentage of top 5% ranked target genes 13% (20/155) 56% (87/155) 79% (118/150)
Average rank ratio of target gene 31.23% 12.93% 7.39%

C. Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) test case

SUSPECTS ENDEAVOUR ToppGene

Percentage of top 10% ranked target genes 32% (9/28) 50% (14/28) 64% (18/28)
Percentage of top 5% ranked target genes 18% (5/28) 14%(4/28) 25% (7/28)
Average rank ratio 25.03% 17.29% 17.35%

D. Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) test case

SUSPECTS ENDEAVOUR ToppGene

Percentage of top 10% ranked target genes 63% (17/27) 56% (15/27) 70% (19/27)
Percentage of top 5% ranked target genes 44% (12/27) 44% (12/27) 63% (17/27)
Average rank ratio 17.04% 13.31% 8.60%