Table 2.

GO terms for affected genes after partial thyroidectomy

GO term	Cluster frequency (%)	Genome frequency	Corrected P value	FDR (%)	False positive
Cellular process	51.3	31.0	0.04406	0.80	0.12
Metabolic process	39.7	20.0	0.0147	0.00	0
Cellular metabolic Process	34.6	17.0	0.03719	0.46	0.06
Regulation of metabolic process	23.1	8.0	0.01117	0.00	0
Regulation of cellular metabolic process	21.8	7.5	0.01746	0.29	0.02
Protein metabolic process	20.5	6.8	0.01671	0.33	0.02
Unannotated	19.2	3.2	5.90E-06	0.00	0
Cellular protein metabolic process	17.9	5.4	0.01945	0.22	0.02
Intracellular signaling pathway	12.8	2.8	0.01786	0.25	0.02
Regulation of molecular function	11.5	1.7	0.00192	0.00	0
Regulation of catalytic activity	10.3	1.4	0.00428	0.00	0
Regulation of phosphorylation	7.7	0.9	0.0238	0.20	0.02
Regulation of phosphate metabolic process	7.7	0.9	0.02914	0.18	0.02
Regulation of phosphorus metabolic process	7.7	0.9	0.02914	0.17	0.02
Positive regulation of molecular function	7.7	1.0	0.03889	0.43	0.06

GO terms analysis was carried out using gene probes identified in clustering analysis. FDR, False discovery rate.