Table 5.

The top physiological activities and molecular and cellular functions related to the sexually dimorphic expressed genes in the proximal colon of both BALB/c and B6 mice (fold-change of 1.2 (up/down) and a p value < 0.05)

Group	Physiological system development and function	p value	# Mol.a
BALB/c	Hematological system development and function	6.67E-04-1.74E-13	170
	Tissue morphology	6.56E-04-4.43E-13	157
	Cell-mediated immune response	6.37E-04-3.59E-12	67
	Immune cell trafficking	6.67E-04-3.59E-12	110
B6	Hematopoiesis	6.44E-04-2.71E-09	80
	Tissue morphology	2.67E-07-1.21E-29	614
	Immune cell trafficking	4.90E-07-3.62E-29	360
	Hematological system development and function	4.90E-07-3.07E-26	577
	Cardiovascular system development and function	2.56E-07-2.40E-24	424
	Organismal development	4.33E-07-2.40E-24	808

^aNumber of molecules included in the indicated functions