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. 2013 Sep 16;5(10):1849–1862. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evt138

Table 1.

Summary of SNP Distribution and SNP Predictions among Functional Categories for the Lineage-Specific SNPs

Lineage SNPs
Functional Categorya Nonsynon Synon Nonsynon/Synon χ2 P Value Predicted Functional SNPsb
1,543 840 1.8 368
Information pathways 96 73 1.3 0.11 12
Lipid metabolism 168 99 1.7 0.63 66
Intermediary metabolism and respiration 394 237 1.7 0.40 88
Cell wall and cell processes 377 197 1.9 0.63 91
Conserved hypotheticals 343 174 2.0 0.63 63
Virulence, detoxification, adaptation 63 29 2.2 0.63 17
Regulatory proteins 102 31 3.3 0.03 31

Intergenic 382 N/A N/A N/A

Note.—A 3-fold overrepresentation of nonsynonymous (nonsynon) to synonymous (synon) SNPs was found within the category of transcriptional regulators (χ2, P = 0.03).

aCategories are based on Tuberculist annotations.

bFunctional SNPs predicted using SIFT (SIFT score ≤ 0.05).