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. 2011 Aug 8;6(8):e22654. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022654

Table 2. Age-induced changes.

GO term Gene count P value FDR
Chromatin remodeling
GO:0051276∼chromosome organization 43 0.0001 0.25
GO:0006325∼chromatin organization 35 0.0003 0.52
GO:0006333∼chromatin assembly or disassembly 17 0.0003 0.59
GO:0006323∼DNA packaging 17 0.0001 0.20
GO:0031497∼chromatin assembly 14 0.0002 0.30
GO:0043933∼macromolecular complex subunit organization 40 0.0001 0.20
GO:0065003∼macromolecular complex assembly 35 0.0008 1.38
GO:0034621∼cellular macromolecular complex subunit organization 30 0.0001 0.18
GO:0034622∼cellular macromolecular complex assembly 26 0.0004 0.72
GO:0065004∼protein-DNA complex assembly 14 0.0002 0.35
GO:0034728∼nucleosome organization 14 0.0002 0.35
GO:0006334∼nucleosome assembly 13 0.0005 0.86
Antigen presentation
GO:0019882∼antigen processing and presentation 13 0.0009 1.67
GO:0048002∼antigen processing & presentation of peptide antigen 10 0.0001 0.20
GO:0002474∼antigen processing & presentation via MHC I 7 0.0002 0.35
Cell cycle
GO:0000278∼mitotic cell cycle 28 0.0011 2.00
GO:0022403∼cell cycle phase 36 0.0004 0.68
GO:0007049∼cell cycle 57 0.0004 0.72
GO:0022402∼cell cycle process 39 0.0015 2.67
Hormone response
GO:0009725∼response to hormone stimulus 21 0.0009 1.50
GO:0009719∼response to endogenous stimulus 23 0.0006 1.11
GO:0043434∼response to peptide hormone stimulus 15 0.0008 1.33
Synapse organization
GO:0050808∼synapse organization 10 0.0017 3.03
GO:0050803∼regulation of synapse structure and activity 6 0.0013 2.26
Lipid metabolism
GO:0045834∼positive regulation of lipid metabolic process 7 0.0022 3.87

Enriched functional categories associated with aging. GO terms are ordered within subcategories by Fisher exact test p value (i.e., EASE score) with highest enriched term at the top of each list. False discovery rates (FDR) are expressed as percentage scores.