The document discusses how integrative studies can provide insights through combining candidate genomic regions, mitochondrial proteomic data, and cancer expression compendiums to discover genes involved in diseases like Leigh Syndrome and cancers. It also highlights several other studies that have integrated data like DNA sequences, copy numbers, methylation, expression profiles, and pathways to characterize disease subtypes and improve risk stratification for conditions such as glioblastoma multiforme and medulloblastoma. The document presents an example of a translational research study that integrated multiple genomic data types and computational tools in 12 steps to analyze alterations in gene expression and identify potential transcription factor binding sites.