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Table 4 Summary of the main muscle-specific biological processes

From: A transcriptome multi-tissue analysis identifies biological pathways and genes associated with variations in feed efficiency of growing pigs

GO termsa

Nb DEG

E score

P-value

Over-expressed in pigs from the low RFI line

GO:0006412 ~ translation

97

39.8

<0.001

GO:0022613 ~ ribonucleoprotein complex biogenesis

33

4.3

<0.001

GO:0003012 ~ muscle system contraction process

26

4.1

<0.001

GO:0006091 ~ generation of precursor metabolites and energy

31

3.1

<0.001

 (GO:0006006 ~ glucose metabolic process)

(26)

(0.007)

GO:0032268 ~ regulation of cellular protein metabolic process

52

2.8

0.001

 (GO:0006417 ~ regulation of translation)

(23)

 

(<0.001)

GO:0030163 ~ protein catabolic process

67

2.7

<0.001

 (GO:0006511 ~ ubiquitin-dependent catabolic process)

(28)

(0.010)

GO:0008104 ~ protein localization

84

2.7

0.003

 (GO:0046907 ~ intracellular transport)

(73)

 

(<0.001)

GO:0005977 ~ glycogen metabolic process

8

1.6

0.009

GO:0046324 ~ regulation of glucose import

10

1.5

<0.001

Under-expressed in pigs from the low RFI line

GO:0006955 ~ immune response

62

10.1

<0.001

GO:0002250 ~ adaptive immune response

18

5.4

<0.001

GO:0001817 ~ regulation of cytokine production

22

4.6

<0.001

GO:0010033 ~ response to organic substance

61

4.0

<0.001

GO:0070482 ~ response to oxygen levels

17

4.0

<0.001

GO:0001501 ~ skeletal system development

25

3.4

<0.001

GO:0042981 ~ regulation of apoptosis

55

3.0

<0.001

GO:0009743 ~ response to carbohydrate stimulus

10

2.1

<0.001

GO:0006631 ~ fatty acid metabolic process

27

1.7

0.006

 (GO:0008610 ~ lipid biosynthetic process)

(19)

(0.05)

  1. aGenes that were differentially expressed between pigs from the low or high RFI lines in muscle only were clustered according to gene ontology (GO) terms for biological processes and Genomes biological pathways (hsa). Significantly-enriched clusters (E ≥ 1; P < 0.05) were listed with the enrichment (E) score, the number (Nb) of differentially expressed genes (DEG) in each cluster and P-value. Overlapping clusters with a similar biological significance were removed