Research Article

Karyotype and DNA-Methylation Responses in Myelodysplastic Syndromes following Treatment with Traditional Chinese Formula Containing Arsenic

Table 2

Functions of genes with hypermethylation.

Go_idGo_nameDiffgene
_count
valueFDR

GO:0050896Response to stimulus 51
GO:0006355Regulation of transcription, DNA-dependent 141
GO:0007275Multicellular organismal development 105
GO:0045893Positive regulation of transcription,
DNA-dependent
59
GO:0007165Signal transduction 115
GO:0000278Mitotic cell cycle 37
GO:0006811Ion transport 60
GO:0006915Apoptosis 61
GO:0007264Small GTPase mediated signal transduction 38
GO:0006810Transport 59
GO:0006357Regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter 31
GO:0016568Chromatin modification 26
GO:0007049Cell cycle 42
GO:0000122Negative regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter 44
GO:0006281DNA repair 33

This table shows parts of 156 category functions of genes with hypermethylation in 25 MDS patients. go_id: gene ID number in Gene Ontology database; go_name: category of function of gene; diffgene_count: number of gene methylated; value: indicating methylation is significant; FDR: false discovery rate, as filter cutoff rate.