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. 2017 Jul 21;18:555. doi: 10.1186/s12864-017-3944-7

Table 3.

Gene ontogeny (GO) categories significantly enriched in genes experiencing positive selection

Category Description No. of genes Fold enrichmentc P-valued
Tested PSGa E[PSG]b
Molecular Function
 GO:0004252 Serine-type endopeptidase activity 36 15 5.6 2.7 0.0003
 GO:0004930 G-protein coupled receptor activity 45 15 7.0 2.2 0.0020
 GO:0005328 Neurotransmitter sodium symporter activity 17 9 2.6 3.4 0.0001
 GO:0005509 Calcium ion binding 140 42 21.6 1.9 <0.0001
 GO:0008484 Sulfuric ester hydrolase activity 23 10 3.6 2.8 0.0013
Cellular Component
 GO:0016020 Membrane 546 120 84.4 1.4 0.0001
Biological Process
 GO:0006508 Proteolysis 147 36 22.7 1.6 0.0027
 GO:0006836 Neurotransmitter transport 17 9 2.6 3.4 0.0002
 GO:0007156 Homophilic cell adhesion 14 8 2.2 3.7 0.0003

aPositively Selected Gene

bExpected number of PSGs

cFold enrichment of observed PSGs to E[PSGs]

dEmpirical P-values were determined by the hypergeometric with 10,000 re-samplings from a total of 6520 genes tested and 1008 identified as PSGs. All remain significant at a False Discovery Rate of 10%