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. 2009 Jun 23;94(9):3521–3529. doi: 10.1210/jc.2009-0212

Table 2.

Gene sets dysregulated in liver of obese or obese diabetic subjects compared to lean subjects or correlated with clinical phenotypes using GSEA

Size ES NES Nominal P value FDR Q value
Gene sets enriched with altered genes in study groups
 Downregulated in obese subjects
  Regulated_Thyroidhormone_Muscle 365 0.43 1.86 <0.001 0.071
  mRNA processing 107 0.43 1.87 <0.001 0.142
  Melton_Stemness 254 0.41 1.79 <0.001 0.185
  Leptin pathway 23 0.60 1.73 <0.001 0.217
  Histidine metabolism 34 0.51 1.74 0.030 0.239
 Upregulated in obese diabetic subjects
  Glycolysis pathway 30 0.72 1.97 0.042 0.170
Enriched with genes correlation with clinical phenotypes
 Positive correlation with HOMA-IR
  T_ALL_Downing_ALL 116 0.58 2.23 <0.001 <0.001
  Eosinophils pathway 19 0.72 1.95 <0.001 0.065

Gene sets with FDR <0.25 are shown. No gene sets were enriched (FDR Q <0.25) for upregulation in obese subjects or downregulation in obese diabetic subjects, or for the correlation with liver fat content, fasting glucose, fasting insulin, or HbA1c. ES, Enrichment score; NES, normalized enrichment score.