Table 14. List of genes that exhibited the highest ranking at the intermediate time point of 8 week as revealed by the MNI analysis in the subcutaneous adipose tissue of mice.

Gene accession No.	Gene symbol	Description	Fold change (HFD/ND)
			2wk	4wk	8wk	12wk
Subcutaneous adipose tissue
Insulin resistance
NM_007501	Neurod4	Neurogenic differentiation 4	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.7
Inflammation
NM_027185	Def6	Differentially expressed in FDCP 6	1.9	2.0	3.0	1.7
Cancer
NM_008999	Rab23	RAB23, member RAS oncogene family	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.7
olfactory transduction
NM_147018	Olfr1056	Olfactory receptor 1056	0.8	0.9	0.7	0.8
NM_146279	Olfr960	Olfactory receptor 960	1.4	1.6	1.7	1.9
NM_001011857	Olfr685	Olfactory receptor 685	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.9
NM_146764	Olfr1408	Olfactory receptor 1408	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7
Others
NM_153111	Fev	FEV (ETS oncogene family)	0.7	0.5	0.4	0.6
NM_080644	Cacng5	Calcium channel, voltage-dependent, gamma subunit 5	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.5
NM_153592	Erlin2	ER lipid raft associated 2	1.3	1.3	1.6	1.3
NM_183036	Defb38	Defensin beta 38	1.6	2.1	2.8	2.0
NM_207022	Tas2r118	Taste receptor, type 2, member 118	2.0	1.6	2.9	2.1
XM_132900	LOC625758	Hypothetical LOC625758	2.0	2.4	2.6	1.5
NM_001008424	Cdsn	Corneodesmosin	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.7
NM_025346	Rmnd5b	Required for meiotic nuclear division 5 homolog B (S. cerevisiae)	1.6	1.9	2.8	2.0
NM_176846	Exph5	Exophilin 5	0.5	0.7	0.5	0.5
NM_146107	Actr1b	ARP1 actin-related protein 1 homolog B (yeast)	0.5	0.6	0.3	0.6
XM_986681	Sytl2	Synaptotagmin-like 2	1.3	1.5	1.3	1.4
XM_618920	LOC544808	Hypothetical LOC544808	1.7	1.6	1.7	1.9
XM_110525	Cnksr1	Connector enhancer of kinase suppressor of Ras 1	1.3	1.5	1.4	1.3
NM_172263	Pde8b	Phosphodiesterase 8B	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.8
NM_025638	Gdpd1	Glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase domain containing 1	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.4
NM_026520	2900009I07Rik	RIKEN cDNA 2900009I07 gene	0.8	0.7	0.5	0.7