Expression variation in connected recombinant populations of Arabidopsis thaliana highlights distinct transcriptome architectures

Table 1 Overrepresented GO categories and terms among CviCol local-eQTLs

Functional Category	Expected Number of eQTLs	Observed Number of eQTLs	P-value
cell organization and biogenesis	165	187	0.034
developmental processes	296	283	0.76
DNA or RNA metabolism	50	54	0.29
electron transport or energy pathways	38	45	0.098
other biological processes	274	295	0.074
other cellular processes	1457	1534	0.004
other metabolic processes	1322	1364	0.041
protein metabolism	524	490	0.94
response to abiotic or biotic stimulus	276	378	7.70 × 10^-11 (S*)
response to stress	305	414	2.19 × 10^-11 (S*)
signal transduction	160	156	0.61
transport	240	289	0.0002 (S*)
unknown biological processes	1534	1112	1

Number of eQTLs per categories among GO 'Biological process'. Categories with a significant excess (after Bonferroni, P < 8 × 10^-4) of eQTLs are indicated with 'S*'. The number of expected eQTLs was estimated from a whole-genome scan considering the fraction of genes in each functional category

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