Table 2 Function enrichment of up- and down-regulated age-associated genes in 7 tissues.

From: Synchronized age-related gene expression changes across multiple tissues in human and the link to complex diseases

Tissue

Up-regulated gene set

Down-regulated gene set

IDa

Description

Adj p-valb

ID

Description

Adj p-val

Adipose

GO:0005578

proteinaceous extracellular matrix

1.52 × 10−3

GO:0005739

mitochondrion

5.77 × 10−47

GO:0005815

microtubule organizing center

2.05 × 10−2

hsa05016

Huntington’s disease

5.12 × 10−8

GO:0043167

ion binding

3.85 × 10−2

hsa05012

Parkinson’s disease

9.22 × 10−8

   

GO:0022900

electron transport chain

2.68 × 10−6

   

GO:0006631

fatty acid metabolic process

2.72 × 10−6

   

hsa05010

Alzheimer’s disease

2.03 × 10−5

Artery

GO:0060589

nucleoside-triphosphatase regulator activity

3.34 × 10−10

GO:0030163

protein catabolic process

5.96 × 10−14

GO:0030695

GTPase regulator activity

5.00 × 10−10

GO:0005739

mitochondrion

1.27 × 10−6

GO:0006952

defense response

6.26 × 10−8

GO:0019787

small conjugating protein ligase activity

2.20 × 10−5

GO:0006954

inflammatory response

2.35 × 10−4

GO:0000278

mitotic cell cycle

1.57 × 10−3

GO:0008219

cell death

1.38 × 10−3

hsa05016

Huntington’s disease

1.25 × 10−2

Heart

   

GO:0005739

mitochondrion

1.29 × 10−36

   

GO:0006099

tricarboxylic acid cycle

3.20 × 10−10

   

hsa05012

Parkinson’s disease

8.79 × 10−8

   

hsa05016

Huntington’s disease

7.10 × 10−7

   

GO:0022900

electron transport chain

5.46 × 10−5

   

GO:0006511

ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process

2.81 × 10−4

Lung

   

GO:0005739

mitochondrion

9.57 × 10−5

   

GO:0005764

lysosome

1.00 × 10−3

   

GO:0005773

vacuole

1.29 × 10−3

Muscle

GO:0016071

mRNA metabolic process

1.83 × 10−4

GO:0000786

nucleosome

3.23 × 10−2

GO:0006281

DNA repair

3.87 × 10−3

   

GO:0046930

pore complex

7.85 × 10−3

   

Nerve

GO:0048812

neuron projection morphogenesis

1.30 × 10−2

   

GO:0048666

neuron development

1.47 × 10−2

   

GO:0007155

cell adhesion

4.99 × 10−2

   

Blood

GO:0006986

response to unfolded protein

1.88 × 10−4

GO:0015031

protein transport

1.10 × 10−11

GO:0007049

cell cycle

8.76 × 10−4

GO:0016192

vesicle-mediated transport

1.64 × 10−8

GO:0005524

ATP binding

6.13 × 10−3

GO:0007264

small GTPase mediated signal transduction

2.41 × 10−4

   

hsa04722

Neurotrophin signaling pathway

1.71 × 10−3

   

GO:0006915

apoptosis

9.28 × 10−3

   

hsa05010

Alzheimer’s disease

1.88 × 10−2

   

GO:0005739

mitochondrion

4.71 × 10−2

  1. aTop representative gene set categories.
  2. bAdj. p-val denotes the Benjamini false discovery rate.