Table 2

Biological processes

Biological process
Detected number of genes in SAM list
Expected number of genes based on NCBI reference list
P-value

Cell proliferation and differentiation
40
18.46
0.00001
Intracellular signaling cascade
35
15.59
0.00001
Protein phosphorylation
28
12.07
0.00005
Protein modification
40
20.81
0.00008
Developmental processes
61
37.57
0.00013
Biological process unclassified
157
193.59
0.00024
Cell cycle control
18
7.16
0.00041
Cell structure and motility
36
20.29
0.00076
Signal transduction
86
61.52
0.0008
Extracellular matrix protein-mediated signaling
6
1.09
0.00091

AR-dependent biological processes identified by PANTHER (Thomas et al. 2003) [11] as significantly over-represented in the SAM-list compared to the NCBI human reference gene list (table limited to genes with p < 0.001)

Holterhus et al. BMC Genomics 2007 8:376   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-376