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. 2014 Jun 19;55(6):3866–3877. doi: 10.1167/iovs.13-13407

Table 4.

Influence of Serum on Biological Process Ontologies in Primary and Immortalized Human Meibomian Gland Epithelial Cells

Ontology
Undifferentiated vs. Serum
SFM vs. Serum
Pri Genes
Pri z-Score
Imm Genes
Imm z-Score
Pri Genes
Pri z-Score
Imm Genes
Imm z-Score
Upregulation
 Anatomical structure development 349 2.64 334 3.35 256 4.28 291 4.4
 Apoptosis 195 6 184 6.13 132 5.21 159 6.43
 Apoptotic mitochondrial changes 11 3.68 9 2.89 10 4.69 8 2.97
 Cell adhesion 117 4.49 96 2.78 97 6.52 103 5.88
 Cell death 209 5.85 199 6.17 142 5.16 166 5.88
 Cell differentiation 237 2.25 223 2.49 162 2.38 195 3.38
 Cell migration 87 4.13 76 3.31 62 4.11 71 4.4
 Cell morphogenesis 86 2.81 75 2.07 62 3.11 73 3.64
 Cellular response to stimulus 500 4.25 446 3.07 337 3.99 387 4.31
 Epidermis development 42 4.72 46 6.23 28 3.86 27 2.82
 Epithelium development 65 4.3 61 4.28 46 4.09 49 3.67
 Induction of apoptosis 60 3.99 59 4.47 36 2.44 54 5.16
 Induction of programmed cell death 60 3.95 59 4.43 37 2.62 54 5.11
 Organ morphogenesis 76 2.24 75 2.84 53 2.29 72 4.24
 Programmed cell death 196 5.99 185 6.12 134 5.36 160 6.45
 Proteolysis 132 5.22 130 5.98 87 4.18 108 5.59
 Signal transduction 430 4.31 391 3.71 294 4.3 328 3.95
 Signaling 453 3.21 412 2.65 314 3.77 347 3.11
 Tissue development 136 5.27 128 5.33 98 5.39 111 5.61
 Vesicle-mediated transport 115 4.36 103 3.76 77 3.67 80 2.79
 Wound healing 84 3.67 71 2.55 59 3.56 75 5.01
Downregulation
 Cell cycle 209 7.95 327 15.98 124 2.54 84 2.34
 Cell cycle checkpoint 56 7.04 77 9.92 28 2.25 22 2.85
 Cell cycle phase 154 9.09 248 17.46 79 2.22 54 2.11
 Cell cycle process 168 8 275 16.69 95 2.37 64 2.12
 Cell division 79 6.01 139 13.58 47 2.47 37 3.32
 Gene expression 505 9.8 555 8.19 412 9.61 226 3.75
 M phase 92 6.38 172 15.94 52 2.12 37 2.26
 M phase of mitotic cell cycle 78 7.33 143 16.41 40 2.2 29 2.39
 Mitosis 76 7.31 139 16.26 39 2.23 29 2.59
 Mitotic cell cycle 151 10.08 233 17.53 76 2.72 50 2.17
 NcRNA metabolic process 93 12.6 96 11.27 71 10.55 32 4.49
 NcRNA processing 66 10.51 68 9.37 54 9.73 25 4.45
 Nuclear division 76 7.31 139 16.26 39 2.23 29 2.59
 Nuclear export 39 9.3 30 5.31 30 7.88 14 3.76
 Ribonucleoprotein complex assembly 33 8.13 30 6.03 19 4.44 10 2.38
 Ribonucleoprotein complex biogenesis 91 15.81 80 11.5 70 13.43 27 4.84
 Ribonucleoprotein complex subunit organization 34 8.06 31 5.97 20 4.52 11 2.63
 Ribonucleotide metabolic process 18 4.82 17 3.63 58 3.28 36 2.17
 Ribosome biogenesis 69 15.54 60 11.38 61 15.71 20 4.84
 RNA processing 172 13.95 180 12.43 126 10.82 52 3.11
 rRNA metabolic process 47 11.72 44 9.39 41 11.7 17 4.98
 rRNA processing 46 11.88 43 9.53 40 11.8 17 5.24
 Sterol biosynthetic process 19 6.39 19 5.52 9 2.52 10 4.56
 Translation 180 21.45 157 15.28 151 20.43 67 9.34
 Translational elongation 75 19.97 55 12.1 77 23.76 32 11.05
 Translational initiation 27 7.6 26 6.21 23 7.41 12 4.27
 Translational termination 68 19.2 52 12.31 74 24.37 31 11.52

Specific ontologies were selected after analyses of nontransformed data. Data are reported for designated ontologies with ≥8 genes.