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Table 1 Gene modules of the obesity related genes

From: DOSim: An R package for similarity between diseases based on Disease Ontology

Cluster

Size

Average similarity

p-value#

FDR*

Representative GO annotation§

Representative KEGG annotation§

M1

92

0.43

<1.0E-05

<1.0E-04

cholesterol homeostasis; high-density lipoprotein particle remodelling; triglyceride catabolic process

Insulin signaling pathway; Type II diabetes mellitus

M2

60

0.30

0.25

0.28

N/A$

Pyruvate metabolism; Galactose metabolism;

M3

55

0.30

0.29

0.29

feeding behavior; photoreceptor cell maintenance

Neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction; Circadian rhythm - mammal;

M4

31

0.50

<1.0E-05

<1.0E-04

response to estrogen stimulus; response to cytokine stimulus; cell aging

Pathways in cancer; Colorectal cancer; Endometrial cancer;

M5

30

0.62

<1.0E-05

<1.0E-04

response to lipopolysaccharide; response to glucocorticoid stimulus

Cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction; Toll-like receptor signaling pathway;

M6

23

0.55

<1.0E-05

<1.0E-04

positive regulation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase cascade; positive regulation of cholesterol esterification

Renin-angiotensin system; Prostate cancer

M7

15

0.34

0.12

0.16

N/A

Insulin signaling pathway

M8

15

0.43

6.0E-04

6.0E-03

blood coagulation; STAT protein nuclear translocation

Complement and coagulation cascades; Regulation of actin cytoskeleton

M9

15

0.53

<1.0E-05

<1.0E-04

response to interleukin-1; response to glucocorticoid stimulus

Hematopoietic cell lineage; Cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction

M10

12

0.40

1.5E-02

2.2E-02

N/A

N/A

  1. # the original p-value calculated by permutation
  2. * FDR using Benjamini and Hochberg multiple testing correlations
  3. § Refer to Additional file 3 for complete GO and KEGG annotations.
  4. $ N/A indicates that there are no enriched GO or KEGG annotation for this module.