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Table 1 Enrichment analysis of genes under positive selection in humans

From: CEGA: a method for inferring natural selection by comparative population genomic analysis across species

Term

Input (Background)

Corrected p value

Pathway (top 15 terms)

 Gene expression (transcription)

84 (1448)

2.74E − 07

 Immune system

109 (2096)

2.74E − 07

 Generic transcription pathway

73 (1193)

4.28E − 07

 RNA polymerase II transcription

76 (1316)

1.93E − 06

 Metabolism

103 (2075)

6.27E − 06

 Adaptive immune system

48 (748)

5.72E − 05

 Metabolic pathways

74 (1433)

1.25E − 04

 Chemical carcinogenesis

13 (82)

3.28E − 04

 Metabolism of xenobiotics by cytochrome P450

12 (76)

7.49E − 04

 Metabolism of proteins

91 (2012)

9.01E − 04

 Post-translational protein modification

69 (1412)

1.13E − 03

 Innate immune system

55 (1043)

1.28E − 03

 Drug metabolism—cytochrome P450

11 (72)

1.89E − 03

 Cell cycle

38 (629)

1.89E − 03

 Transcriptional regulation by TP53

26 (359)

2.34E − 03

Disease (top 15 terms)

 Schizophrenia

20 (181)

1.37E − 04

 Obesity-related traits

44 (691)

1.87E − 04

 Longevity

9 (32)

2.44E − 04

 Platelet counts

11 (77)

2.91E − 03

 Age-related macular degeneration

10 (64)

3.29E − 03

 Alzheimer’s disease

8 (47)

8.16E − 03

 Other diseases

17 (204)

8.33E − 03

 Mental and behavioral disorders

16 (189)

9.83E − 03

 Alzheimer’s disease (late onset)

8 (50)

1.00E − 02

 Autism

5 (15)

1.00E − 02

 Metabolite levels (HVA/MHPG ratio)

5 (17)

1.45E − 02

 Congenital disorders of metabolism

36 (695)

2.06E − 02

 Gambling

4 (10)

2.10E − 02

 Nervous system diseases

42 (859)

2.11E − 02

 Bipolar disorder

12 (131)

2.39E − 02

GO (top 15 terms with < 500 background genes)

 Glutamatergic synapse

27 (354)

9.44E − 04

 Signaling receptor activity

20 (214)

9.90E − 04

 Neuron projection

26 (336)

1.04E − 03

 Transcription factor binding

25 (325)

1.58E − 03

 Glucuronosyltransferase activity

7 (23)

1.71E − 03

 Brain development

20 (231)

2.24E − 03

 Ubiquitin protein ligase binding

23 (294)

2.34E − 03

 Protein kinase binding

30 (461)

3.39E − 03

 Amyloid-beta binding

11 (80)

3.55E − 03

 Neuronal cell body

26 (376)

4.17E − 03

 Neuron projection development

13 (116)

4.72E − 03

 Postsynaptic density

20 (251)

5.02E − 03

 Flavone metabolic process

4 (5)

5.45E − 03

 Chaperone cofactor-dependent protein refolding

7 (32)

6.36E − 03

 mRNA 3'-UTR binding

10 (73)

6.69E − 03

  1. 1145 genes (with upstream 10 kb) that overlap with positively selected windows (p value < 0.0005) are included in the enrichment analysis. Only the top terms from the enrichment results are shown in the table, and the full list of terms is shown in Additional file 2: Tables S2-S4