Table 4. Enriched GO terms when comparing candidate genes to the whole genome using GeneMerge1.2.
| GO term | Description | Pop-frec | CR-frec | ratio | P value |
| GO:0000003 | reproduction | 210/27430 | 101/9829 | 1.34 | 9.08E-3 |
| GO:0044421 | extracellular region part | 361/27430 | 171/9829 | 1.32 | 2.12E-4 |
| GO:0016265 | death | 403/27430 | 182/9829 | 1.26 | 3.49E-3 |
| GO:0022414 | reproductive process | 208/27430 | 101/9829 | 1.36 | 5.76E-3 |
| GO:0032991 | macromolecular complex | 1327/27430 | 596/9829 | 1.25 | 1.03E-10 |
| GO:0005623 | cell | 5024/27430 | 2264/9829 | 1.26 | 8.171E-49 |
| GO:0048519 | negative regulation of biological process | 669/27430 | 306/9829 | 1.28 | 3.34E-06 |
| GO:0050896 | response to stimulus | 1500/27430 | 693/9829 | 1.30 | 7.77E-16 |
| GO:0044422 | organelle part | 1953/27430 | 885/9829 | 1.26 | 1.32E-17 |
| GO:0051234 | establishment of localization | 1094/27430 | 494/9829 | 1.26 | 3.30E-09 |
| GO:0031974 | membrane-enclosed lumen | 728/27430 | 340/9829 | 1.30 | 3.68E-08 |
| GO:0022610 | biological adhesion | 198/27430 | 94/9829 | 1.32 | 0.0261 |
| GO:0008152 | metabolic process | 2813/27430 | 1291/9829 | 1.28 | 1.81E-29 |
| GO:0044464 | cell part | 5024/27430 | 2264/9829 | 1.26 | 8.17E-49 |
| GO:0003824 | catalytic activity | 1991/27430 | 919/9829 | 1.29 | 2.99E-21 |
| GO:0005488 | binding | 3393/27430 | 1534/9829 | 1.26 | 1.07E-31 |
| GO:0009987 | cellular process | 3860/27430 | 1739/9829 | 1.26 | 1.49E-35 |
| GO:0005215 | transporter activity | 400/27430 | 180/9829 | 1.26 | 4.84E-3 |
| GO:0032502 | developmental process | 896/27430 | 409/9829 | 1.27 | 2.85E-08 |
| GO:0002376 | immune system process | 390/27430 | 175/9829 | 1.25 | 7.19E-3 |
| GO:0008283 | cell proliferation | 292/27430 | 142/9829 | 1.36 | 2.41E-4 |
| GO:0005576 | extracellular region | 697/27430 | 320/9829 | 1.28 | 1.06E-06 |
| GO:0023052 | signaling | 904/27430 | 424/9829 | 1.31 | 1.34E-10 |
| GO:0048518 | positive regulation of biological process | 785/27430 | 359/9829 | 1.28 | 2.51E-07 |
| GO:0032501 | multicellular organismal process | 1124/27430 | 494/9829 | 1.23 | 3.43E-07 |
| GO:0051704 | multi-organism process | 189/27430 | 92/9829 | 1.36 | 0.0102 |
| GO:0043226 | organelle | 3372/27430 | 1509/9829 | 1.25 | 1.65E-28 |
| GO:0060089 | molecular transducer activity | 309/27430 | 151/9829 | 1.36 | 8.61E-05 |
| GO:0050789 | regulation of biological process | 1900/27430 | 871/9829 | 1.28 | 5.19E-19 |
| GO:0004872 | receptor activity | 347/27430 | 156/9829 | 1.25 | 0.0144 |
| GO:0030234 | enzyme regulator activity | 261/27430 | 122/9829 | 1.30 | 9.57E-3 |
| GO:0040011 | locomotion | 245/27430 | 115/9829 | 1.31 | 0.012 |
| GO:0051179 | localization | 1269/27430 | 575/9829 | 1.26 | 4.01E-11 |
| GO:0040007 | growth | 165/27430 | 81/9829 | 1.37 | 0.0170 |
| GO:0071840 | cellular component organization or biogenesis | 1015/27430 | 474/9829 | 1.30 | 1.57E-11 |
| GO:0065007 | biological regulation | 2029/27430 | 927/9829 | 1.28 | 8.67E-20 |
This table describes second GO terms significantly enriched in core regions based on GeneMerge1.2 software. 36 terms are detected to be significant here. Pop-frec describes the frequency of genes in the population with this term, and CR-frec describes the frequency of genes in the core regions with this term. Ratio is calculated by the comparison of a term within the core regions to that in genome wide. P value here is a Bonferroni corrected P value.