Table 4 Pathways enriched with the predicted targets of the miRNAs of interest.

From: Whole blood microRNA levels associate with glycemic status and correlate with target mRNAs in pathways important to type 2 diabetes

Description

Genes in pathway

Genes in overlap

p-value

FDR q-value

Hsa-miR-221-3p

Insulin signaling pathway

137

8

6.60*10−5

0.006

Type II diabetes mellitus

47

5

9.63*10−5

0.006

Glycosylphosphatidylinositol(GPI)-anchor biosynthesis

25

4

9.75*10−5

0.006

Alzheimer’s disease

169

8

2.81*10–4

0.012

Cysteine and methionine metabolism

34

4

3.33*10−4

0.012

Tight junction

134

7

3.72*10−4

0.012

Purine metabolism

159

7

0.001

0.027

Spliceosome

128

6

0.002

0.039

Hsa-miR-146b-5p

Toll-like receptor signaling pathway

102

6

1.04*10−4

0.017

Adherens junction

75

5

2.21*10−4

0.017

Peroxisome

78

5

2.65*10−4

0.017

Regulation of actin cytoskeleton

216

7

0.001

0.045

Epithelial cell signaling in Helicobacter pylori infection

68

4

0.002

0.045

Pancreatic cancer

70

4

0.002

0.045

Leishmania infection

72

4

0.002

0.045

Lysosome

121

5

0.002

0.045

Endocytosis

183

6

0.002

0.046

Spliceosome

128

5

0.002

0.046

  1. Only targets that were predicted by two algorithms and whose expression levels correlated with miRNA levels (p < 0.05) were included in the enrichment analysis. Significant results (FDR q-value < 0.05) were found only with hsa-miR-221-2p and -146b-5p.
  2. Abbreviations: FDR = false discovery rate. *Multiply sign.