Prediction of trans-antisense transcripts in Arabidopsis thaliana

Table 5 Over-represented gene families or functional groups in Arabidopsis trans-NAT pairs

Rank	N	X	P-adj	GO attribute
1	43	167	<0.001	0008194: UDP-glycosyl transferase activity
2	197	2,634	<0.001	0016757: transferase activity
3	16	40	<0.001	0016168: chlorophyll binding
4	102	1,158	<0.001	0005515: protein binding
5	16	58	<0.001	0042546: cell wall biosynthesis
6	10	25	<0.001	0030076: light-harvesting complex
7	25	195	0.003	0006511: ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis
8	42	437	0.003	0006464: protein modification
9	53	611	0.003	0007165: signal transduction
10	392	7,058	0.006	0003824: catalytic activity
11	23	194	0.013	0009733: response to auxin stimulus

N, number of transcripts from the same GO category involved in Arabidopsis trans-NAT pairs; P-adj, adjusted p value calculated by 1,000 null-hypothesis simulations using Fisher exact test; X, number of genes from the same GO category in Arabidopsis genome.

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