Table 3.

Table of sialic-acid associated placental differentially expressed genes between preeclampsia and normal pregnancies with FDR<0.05.

Ranka	Illumina Probe ID	Gene Symbol	Gene Description	GO Molecular Function	log2 Estimate	FDR	p-value
4	ILMN_1669146	SIAE	Sialic acid acetylesterase	hydrolase activity; serine esterase activity; sialate O-acetylesterase activity	0.44	1.4E-05	1.6E-09
44	ILMN_1815874	NANS	N-acetylneuraminic acid synthase	transferase activity; N-acetylneuraminate synthase activity; N-acylneuraminate-9-phosphate synthase activity; N-acylneuraminate cytidylyltransferase activity	0.37	8.3E-05	1.1E-07
166	ILMN_1756501	ST6GAL1	ST6 beta-galactosamide alpha-2,6-sialyltranferase 1	beta-galactoside alpha-2,6-sialyltransferase activity	−0.42	5.2E-04	2.5E-06
1535	ILMN_1685630	SIGLEC6	sialic acid binding Ig-like lectin 6	protein binding; sugar binding	0.21	2.2E-02	1.0E-03
1632	ILMN_1756937	ST8SIA4	ST8 alpha-N-acetyl-neuraminide alpha-2,8-sialyltransferase 4	sialyltransferase activity	0.21	2.4E-02	1.2E-03

^aGenes ranked by p-value of preeclamptic differential expression from low to high.

^bBenjamini-Hochberg FDR