Evolutionarily conserved elements in vertebrate, insect, worm, and yeast genomes

Table 1.

Selected gene ontology (GO) categories of vertebrate genes overlapped by highly conserved elements





CDS

5′ UTR

3′ UTR

Intron
Term
Description
Na
exp.b
obs.c
Pd
exp.
obs.
P
exp.
obs.
P
exp.
obs.
P
GO:0003677 DNA binding 1914 164.5 378 1.3e-62 59.4 158 1.5e-33 84.4 221 1.0e-45 28.6 80 5.1e-19
GO:0030528 transcription regulator activity 1125 96.7 251 1.7e-49 34.9 119 2.4e-34 49.6 140 8.5e-31 16.8 54 6.2e-15
GO:0007275 development 1746 150.1 266 1.2e-22 54.2 115 1.0e-15 77.0 122 1.1e-07 26.0 47 3.8e-05
GO:0005216 ion channel activity 334 28.7 79 3.8e-17 10.3 24 1.2e-04 14.7 16 4.0e-01 4.9 2 1.2e-01
GO:0006333 chromatin assembly/disassembly 153 13.1 47 3.1e-15 4.7 11 8.3e-03 6.7 17 4.2e-04 2.2 2 6.0e-01
GO:0007399 neurogenesis 384 33.0 82 5.2e-15 11.9 38 2.7e-10 16.9 36 1.7e-05 5.7 15 6.7e-04
GO:0009887 organogenesis 880 75.6 144 1.0e-14 27.3 67 6.2e-12 38.8 64 5.2e-05 13.1 27 3.0e-04
GO:0009653 morphogenesis 1099 94.4 169 1.3e-14 34.1 76 2.2e-11 48.5 77 3.1e-05 16.4 34 3.8e-05
GO:0008066 glutamate receptor activity 38 3.2 19 3.6e-11 1.1 6 1.0e-03 1.6 5 2.5e-02
GO:0008134 transcription factor binding 251 21.5 54 1.9e-10 7.7 21 3.8e-05 11.0 35 1.5e-09 3.7 10 4.5e-03
GO:0005515 protein binding 2179 187.3 252 1.4e-07 67.7 98 6.9e-05 96.1 141 8.9e-07 32.5 41 6.7e-02
GO:0007018 microtubule-based movement 55 4.7 18 3.9e-07 2.4 8 2.6e-03 0.8 2 2.0e-01
GO:0003723 RNA binding 601 51.6 88 4.2e-07 18.6 26 5.6e-02 26.5 66 5.5e-12 8.9 7 3.2e-01
GO:0007268 synaptic transmission 240 20.6 44 1.1e-06 7.4 12 7.2e-02 10.5 10 5.1e-01
GO:0030154 cell differentiation 200 17.1 37 6.4e-06 6.2 17 1.7e-04 8.8 15 3.2e-02 2.9 7 3.1e-02
GO:0007267 cell-cell signaling 532 45.7 77 3.5e-06 16.5 23 6.9e-02 23.4 24 4.9e-01 7.9 2 1.3e-02
GO:0016071 mRNA metabolism 188 16.1 35 9.8e-06 5.8 10 6.9e-02 8.2 29 3.7e-09 2.8 3 5.4e-01
GO:0006397 mRNA processing 170 14.6 30 1.2e-04 5.2 8 1.6e-01 7.5 24 4.5e-07 2.5 3 4.7e-01
GO:0006512
ubiquitin cycle
542
46.6
69
5.9e-04
16.8
22
1.2e-01
23.9
45
3.4e-05
8.1
3
3.6e-02
  • a Number of genes in background set assigned to category.

  • b Expected number of genes overlapped under background distribution.

  • c Observed number of genes overlapped.

  • d P-value. Values of less than 5e-5 can be considered significant (see Methods).

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