Research Article

Involvement of Endocytosis and Alternative Splicing in the Formation of the Pathological Process in the Early Stages of Parkinson’s Disease

Table 2

Results of cluster analysis of 1429 transcripts by DAVID.

ClusterGene ontology terms and annotationsCount*Enrichment score** valueFDR***

Processes related to functioning of immune system
Immune system processGO:00023761006.21
Defense responseGO:0006952 683.72
Response to cytokine stimulusGO:0034097172.92
Positive regulation of I-kappaB kinase/NF-kappaB signalingGO:0043123192.82

Processes related to cellular transport
EndosomeGO:0005768414.12
Vesicle-mediated transportGO:0016192633.52
Protein kinase cascade (intracellular signal transduction)GO:0035556483.04
Membrane-enclosed lumenGO:00319741412.3
Intracellular transportGO:0046907661.55
Endoplasmic reticulum lumenGO:0005788141.50

Other processes
Alternative splicingGO:00083805149.31
LysosomeGO:0005764212.64
Regulation of catalytic activityGO:0050790772.23
Regulation of molecular functionGO:0065009852.23
Regulation of catalytic activityGO:0050790771.49

Count is number of genes in a cluster.
**Enrichment score ranks the biological significance of gene groups based on overall EASE scores of all enriched annotation terms.
***False-discovery rate (FDR) or the correction of values using the Benjamini-Hochberg method.