Table 3.

Functional Properties of Genes With Promoters That Contain Consensus DNA Sequences That Are in the Peak

A variety of functional characteristics was examined for each gene, including if they had a GO ontology annotation, were involved in related biological processes (e.g. ribosomal, proteasomal, or channel) and mRNA expression properties (housekeeping or tissue specific). For each criterion, we present the total number of genes in the group. We next present the three numbers for each consensus sequence: (1) the absolute number of promoters in the group with the consensus sequence in the peak, (2) the fraction of genes in the group that have this consensus, and (3) a statistical measure of the correlation between these two terms. For example, 7.6% of the 13,010 promoters contain the CCAAT sequence in the peak, but only 2% of the 147 channel genes contain the CCAAT sequence in the peak. Those correlations that are greater than P = 3 are shown in black, a positive correlation has an asterisk in the probability column.