An enriched gene in GSEA
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By the very definition of GSEA, it is impossible, as the gene sets are defined a priori:
Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) is a computational method that determines whether an a priori defined set of genes shows statistically significant, concordant differences between two biological states (e.g. phenotypes).
The gene would not be in the pathway if it weren't present in literature/ gene sets.
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I'm not sure how to interpret your question. Is one of your differential expressed genes not in a gene set? Or did you find a gene in a gene set which you can't explain?
There is a gene X we found to be associated with a particular pathway after GSEA. However a search of literature and GSEA datasets do not have the said gene. But that gene is present in our differentially expressed genes.
Well, there probably was a (good) reason to include "gene X" in that "particular pathway". I can't help further since I have no idea about which gene, which pathway, which geneset. The genesets probably contain some information on how these were made.