Table 3 Gene Ontology terms significantly enriched in multiple tissue types in comparison of ASD-related meQTL targets to meQTL targets generally

From: Cross-tissue integration of genetic and epigenetic data offers insight into autism spectrum disorder

Term

Peripheral blood scaled ranka

Cord blood scaled ranka

Fetal brain scaled ranka

Response to interferon-gamma

0.14

0.11

0.11

Positive regulation of relaxation of cardiac muscle

0.20

0.46

0.30

Production of molecular mediator of immune response

0.65

0.22

0.28

Cellular response to interferon-gamma

NA

0.07

0.09

Detection of bacterium

NA

0.18

0.06

Detection of biotic stimulus

NA

0.26

0.04

T-helper 1 type immune response

NA

0.08

0.34

Regulation of interleukin-10 secretion

NA

0.09

0.43

Interferon-gamma production

NA

0.57

0.19

Regulation of interleukin-4 production

NA

0.24

0.62

Interleukin-4 production

NA

0.29

0.60

Interleukin-10 production

NA

0.25

0.74

Tongue development

NA

0.68

0.32

Inflammatory response to antigenic stimulus

NA

0.32

0.81

Endochondral bone growth

NA

0.71

0.53

Antigen processing and presentation of peptide or polysaccharide antigen via MHC class II

0.01

0.05

NA

T-cell costimulation

0.05

0.01

NA

Positive regulation of hormone secretion

0.09

0.04

NA

Antigen receptor-mediated signaling pathway

0.08

0.13

NA

Immunoglobulin production involved in immunoglobulin mediated immune response

0.24

0.03

NA

Single organismal cell-cell adhesion

0.23

0.12

NA

Single organism cell adhesion

0.34

0.16

NA

Negative regulation of nonmotile primary cilium assembly

0.16

0.39

NA

Antigen processing and presentation of polysaccharide antigen via MHC class II

0.02

0.58

NA

Polysaccharide assembly with MHC class II protein complex

0.03

0.59

NA

Protein-carbohydrate complex subunit organization

0.04

0.61

NA

Microtubule sliding

0.29

0.38

NA

MHC protein complex assembly

0.06

0.75

NA

Negative regulation of serine-type peptidase activity

0.41

0.41

NA

Regulation of satellite cell activation involved in skeletal muscle regeneration

0.39

0.45

NA

Protein repair

0.43

0.43

NA

Regulation of serine-type peptidase activity

0.48

0.47

NA

Protein localization to basolateral plasma membrane

0.46

0.55

NA

Lymphocyte migration into lymphoid organs

0.47

0.62

NA

Peyer’s patch morphogenesis

0.60

0.70

NA

Regulation of homeostatic process

0.45

0.92

NA

Skeletal muscle satellite cell activation

0.88

0.63

NA

  1. aScaled rank refers to enrichment P value-based rank divided by the number of marginally significant terms post REVIGO filtering for that tissue (peripheral blood: 95, cord blood: 76, fetal brain: 47)
  2. ‘NA’ shown for terms that did not appear in these lists for that tissue. Terms are lumped into sections based on cross-tissue overlap: Section 1—all three tissues, Section 2—cord blood and fetal brain, Section 3—peripheral blood and cord blood. Within each of these sections, terms are arranged according to the sum of the scaled ranks. See Methods for additional details