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. 2012 Oct 3;13(10):R91. doi: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-10-r91

Table 1.

Pathway enrichment for 11 male and female rat tissue signature lists

11 male and female tissues Sex and tissue

Male Female


6 tissues Heart Kidney Liver Prostate SV Testis 5 tissues Heart Kidney Liver Ovary Uterus
Pathway name
Number of genes in input list 4059 3046 172 725 266 1112 274 552 1298 408 151 99 305 279
Total number of affected pathways 230 224 79 151 141 191 90 99 191 108 79 29 80 138
Pathways in cancer 45 32 3 7 6 13 1 2 17 6 3 1 3 4
Protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum 39 38 3 4 1 22 5 4 3 1 1 1
HTLV-I infection 39 31 8 3 14 3 2 10 4 2 1 3
RNA transport 39 31 1 8 17 3 6 11 4 1 2 4
Transcriptional misregulation in cancers 31 26 1 8 6 7 4 3 12 6 3 1 3
Herpes simplex infection 30 23 2 10 3 7 2 1 9 3 1 2 3
Lysosome 29 27 1 5 4 16 2 2 5 1 1 3
Ribosome 29 27 2 5 1 20 4 1 1 2
Endocytosis 29 26 1 4 8 11 1 3 5 2 3
Phagosome 28 27 1 6 6 12 2 7 3 4
MAPK signaling pathway 28 21 1 7 3 7 1 2 8 3 1 4
Spliceosome 27 17 8 1 1 2 7 12 6 1 1 5
Regulation of actin cytoskeleton 26 24 1 6 6 9 3 5 3 1 1
Alzheimer's disease 26 22 2 4 7 10 5 2 3
Huntington's disease 26 22 1 6 2 14 5 1 1 2 1
Purine metabolism 26 22 1 6 2 4 2 6 7 2 5
Focal adhesion 26 21 2 2 7 8 3 9 3 2 4
Chemokine signaling pathway 24 23 3 4 6 9 1 1 4 2 2
Pyrimidine metabolism 24 20 1 6 1 6 1 5 6 1 1 1 3
Tuberculosis 24 20 6 6 9 1 9 1 1 7
Influenza A 23 21 1 5 2 11 1 3 5 1 2 2
Oxidative phosphorylation 23 20 1 4 5 11 5 1 1 3
Leukocyte transendothelial migration 22 18 2 1 7 8 1 6 4 1 1
Cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction 21 19 1 6 7 6 4 3 1
Osteoclast differentiation 21 18 1 2 6 10 1 5 1 1 3
Cell adhesion molecules 20 14 2 3 4 6 1 7 3 1 1 2
Insulin signaling pathway 19 13 2 3 6 2 6 2 4
mRNA surveillance pathway 19 13 1 4 5 2 4 8 4 2 2

HTLV, human T-lymphotropic virus; MAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinase; SV, seminal vesicle.