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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Birth Defects Res. 2017 Feb 13;109(4):271–295. doi: 10.1002/bdra.23609

TABLE 4.

Enriched Gene Ontology Related to Cardiac Development*

Term Description GO type CNV
type
Cohort 1
Cohort 2
Total
References citing full pathway
relevant to cardiac development or
component members
Case Control p-value Case Control p-value p-value FDR
GO:0051090 Regulation of sequence-
specific DNA binding
transcription factor
activity
Biological
process
dup 11 23 3.64E-02 15 16 1.80E-
05
6.45E-06 2.38E-04 HAND2 (Vincentz et al., 2011), SHH
(Washington Smoak et al., 2005),
MYOCD (Huang et al., 2012), FZD2
(van Gijn et al., 2001; Yu et al., 2010)
NODAL (Koefoed et al., 2014)
TGFB1 (Engelmann et al., 1992)

GO:0055007 Cardiac muscle cell
differentiation
Biological
process
dup 2 0 3.02E-02 6 2 3.08E-
04
1.98E-05 6.17E-04 MYOCD (see above), NKX2.5
(McElhinney et al., 2003)GATA4
(Tomita-Mitchell et al., 2007),
MEF2C (Dodou et al., 2004), HEY2
(Donovan et al., 2002; Sakata et al., 2006)

GO:0031513 Nonmotile primary cilium Cellular
component
all 9 13 7.95E-03 7 12 0.0204 5.42E-04 8.48E-03 (Li et al., 2015; Tobin and Beales, 2009)

GO:0035924 Cellular response to
vascular endothelial
growth factor stimulus
Biological
process
all 3 2 3.97E-02 4 2 0.00695 6.42E-04 9.84E-03 (Dor et al., 2001)

GO:2000018 Regulation of male gonad
development
Biological
process
all 2 0 3.02E-02 3 1 0.0137 6.77E-04 1.02E-02 CITED2 (Weninger et al., 2005),
ZFPM2 (Pizzuti et al., 2003), SOX9
(Lincoln et al., 2007)

GO:0051276 Chromosome
organization
Biological
process
dup 18 49 4.93E-02 16 36 0.0058 1.12E-03 1.90E-02 (Zaidi et al., 2013)(Silversides et al., 2012)

GO:0046425 Regulation of JAK-STAT
cascade
Biological
process
dup 4 3 2.03E-02 5 7 0.0286 1.87E-03 2.90E-02 (Jorge et al., 2009; Tartaglia and Gelb, 2005;
Xu and Qu, 2008)

GO:0017015 Regulation of
transforming growth
factor beta receptor
signaling pathway
Biological
process
dup 4 4 3.52E-02 4 4 0.0249 2.19E-03 3.26E-02 (Arthur and Bamforth, 2011; Ma et al., 2016)

GO:0032321 Positive regulation of Rho
GTPase activity
Biological
process
dup 6 10 4.50E-02 4 3 0.0142 2.34E-03 3.46E-02 (Wei et al., 2002)

GO:2001236 Regulation of extrinsic
apoptotic signaling
pathway
Biological
process
dup 8 13 1.95E-02 6 10 0.0287 2.80E-03 3.98E-02 (Fisher et al., 2000; Lu et al., 2011;
Poelmann and Gittenberger-de Groot, 2005;
Rezvani et al., 2000)

GO:0051865 Protein autoubiquitination Biological
process
dup 4 4 3.52E-02 4 5 0.0394 3.54E-03 4.71E-02 (Fouladkou et al., 2010)

GO:0090092 Regulation of
transmembrane receptor
protein serine/threonine
kinase signaling pathway
Biological
process
dup 6 10 4.50E-02 5 7 0.0286 3.74E-03 4.94E-02 (Gaspar et al., 2003; Nebigil et al., 2000;
Nebigil and Maroteaux, 2003)
*

Full list in Table S6.