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Table 3 Top ten GO (Gene Ontology) and pathway categories enriched for co-expressed gene modules which correlated with obesity phenotypic traits

From: Gene expression profiling reveals distinct features of various porcine adipose tissues

Correlated trait

Tissue (Gene sets order No.)

Functional category

Term

P values

Involved gene No.

Adipocyte volume

ULB (4)

GO-BP

metabolic process

1.19 × 10-7

119

ILB (2)

GO-BP

coenzyme metabolic process

8.84 × 10-6

8

GO-BP

lipid metabolic process

4.38 × 10-5

23

GO-BP

fatty acid metabolic process

8.95 × 10-5

10

GO-BP

primary metabolic process

1.07 × 10-4

104

GO-BP

translation

5.37 × 10-4

12

GO-BP

protein folding

1.50 × 10-3

8

GO-BP

fatty acid beta-oxidation

2.65 × 10-3

3

GO-BP

pentose-phosphate shunt

3.51 × 10-3

2

GO-BP

generation of precursor metabolites and energy

4.15 × 10-3

9

Body density

RAD (8,11)

GO-BP

translation

1.44 × 10-3

8

IAD (10)

GO-BP

protein targeting

1.90 × 10-3

5

GO-BP

lysosomal transport

5.44 × 10-3

2

GO-MF

structural constituent of ribosome

6.10 × 10-3

5

GO-MF

structural molecule activity

6.62 × 10-3

15

GO-BP

nitrogen utilization

1.20 × 10-2

1

KEGG

Serine glycine biosynthesis

2.97 × 10-2

1

GO-BP

regulation of amino acid metabolic process

3.55 × 10-2

1

GO-BP

pyrimidine base metabolic process

4.40 × 10-2

2

GO-BP

pentose-phosphate shunt

4.71 × 10-2

1

Apo-A1 (Metabolic indicators)

RAD (11)

GO-BP

nitrogen utilization

3.51 × 10-3

1

GO-BP

regulation of amino acid metabolic process

1.05 × 10-2

1

GO-BP

lysosomal transport

3.12 × 10-2

1

GO-BP

nitrogen compound metabolic process

3.12 × 10-2

1

GO-BP

neuromuscular synaptic transmission

4.64 × 10-2

1

GO-MF

hormone activity

1.55 × 10-2

2

KEGG

Vasopressin synthesis

2.09 × 10-2

1

KEGG

De novo pyrmidineribonucleotidesbiosythesis

3.12 × 10-2

1

KEGG

Cortocotropin releasing factor receptor signaling pathway

5.14 × 10-2

1

KEGG

De novo purine biosynthesis

5.64 × 10-2

1

HDL (Metabolic indicators)

RAD (1)

GO-BP

generation of precursor metabolites and energy

1.20 × 10-15

37

GO-BP

metabolic process

1.49 × 10-14

273

GO-BP

respiratory electron transport chain

1.35 × 10-11

30

GO-BP

coenzyme metabolic process

3.02 × 10-9

16

GO-BP

primary metabolic process

9.31 × 10-9

241

GO-BP

signal transduction

6.95 × 10-7

48

GO-BP

cell communication

8.92 × 10-7

52

GO-BP

cell surface receptor linked signal transduction

1.49 × 10-6

15

GO-BP

system development

3.58 × 10-6

9

GO-BP

tricarboxylic acid cycle

5.49 × 10-6

7

LDH (Metabolic indicators)

ULB (3)

GO-BP

fatty acid metabolic process

1.37 × 10-5

9

GO-BP

metabolic process

1.86 × 10-5

75

GO-BP

fatty acid beta-oxidation

3.05 × 10-5

4

GO-BP

coenzyme metabolic process

4.77 × 10-5

6

GO-BP

cellular amino acid biosynthetic process

9.01 × 10-5

5

GO-BP

cellular amino acid metabolic process

1.05 × 10-4

9

GO-BP

protein folding

4.66 × 10-4

7

GO-BP

pentose-phosphate shunt

1.45 × 10-3

2

GO-BP

primary metabolic process

1.99 × 10-3

66

GO-BP

carbohydrate metabolic process

2.94 × 10-3

12

Insulin (Metabolic indicators

RAD (3)

KEGG

VEGF signaling pathway

3.72 × 10-4

4

GO-BP

transcription, RNA-dependent

4.06 × 10-4

2

GO-BP

cell communication

6.62 × 10-4

31

GO-BP

mesoderm development

1.04 × 10-3

11

GO-BP

cellular process

1.10 × 10-3

40

GO-BP

protein amino acid ADP-ribosylation

1.11 × 10-3

2

GO-BP

signal transduction

1.37 × 10-3

29

GO-BP

esicle-mediated transport

1.69 × 10-3

11

GO-BP

system development

1.93 × 10-3

14

GO-BP

cell surface receptor linked signal transduction

4.81 × 10-3

16

IL-6 (Inflammatory and immune adipokines)

GOM (3)

GO-BP

immune system process

6.66 × 10-4

21

IAD (11)

GO-BP

response to stimulus

7.72 × 10-4

16

GO-BP

response to interferon-gamma

2.08 × 10-3

4

GO-BP

cellular defense response

4.67 × 10-3

6

GO-BP

immune response

6.84 × 10-3

8

GO-BP

DNA recombination

1.06 × 10-2

3

GO-BP

nitrogen utilization

1.16 × 10-2

1

GO-BP

gluconeogenesis

1.35 × 10-2

2

GO-BP

antigen processing and presentation of peptide or polysaccharide antigen via MHC class II

1.81 × 10-2

2

KEGG

T cell activation

1.84 × 10-2

4

TNF- α (Inflammatory and immune adipokines)

MAD (2)

GO-BP

antigen processing and presentation of peptide or polysaccharide antigen via MHC class II

4.26 × 10-5

4

  

GO-BP

antigen processing and presentation

6.56 × 10-4

4

KEGG

T cell activation

1.37 × 10-3

4

  

GO-BP

cellular defense response

3.14 × 10-3

6

  

GO-BP

immune system process

8.14 × 10-3

17

  

GO-BP

tRNAaminoacylation for protein translation

2.18 × 10-2

2

  

KEGG

5-Hydroxytryptamine biosynthesis

3.17 × 10-2

1

  

KEGG

Mannose metabolism

3.69 × 10-2

1

  

GO-BF

establishment or maintenance of chromatin architecture

3.85 × 10-2

4

PAI-1 (Inflammatory and immune adipokines)

GOM(2)

GO-BP

immune system process

6.00 × 10-15

41

GO-BP

response to stimulus

6.31 × 10-15

30

GO-BP

cellular defense response

1.25 × 10-10

15

GO-BP

immune response

1.35 × 10-10

19

GO-BP

B cell mediated immunity

1.05 × 10-7

9

GO-BP

natural killer cell activation

4.17 × 10-6

7

GO-BP

antigen processing and presentation

6.62 × 10-6

6

KEGG

T cell activation

2.04 × 10-5

6

GO-BP

cell surface receptor linked signal transduction

1.52 × 10-4

23

KEGG

Inflammation mediated by chemokine and cytokine signaling pathway

3.11 × 10-4

8

  1. In all tests, the unified set of co-expressed genes for different adipose depots correlated to an obesity phenotypic trait was compared with the whole known genes which were appointed as the background. P values indicating significance of the overlap between various genes sets, was calculated using Benjamini-corrected modified Fisher’s exact test. BP biological process, MF molecular function.