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Table 2 Best frontal- and occipital-specific biological pathways enriched for differential eGenes

From: Mapping of cis-acting expression quantitative trait loci in human scalp hair follicles

Biological pathway

GeneSet

Frontal scalp

Occipital scalp

n

Fold value

P

n

Fold value

P

Frontal scalp eQTLs

 Activation of Chaperones by ATF6-alpha

9

3

21.85

2.78E-04

0

0.01

1

 Interconversion of 2-oxoglutarate and 2-hydroxyglutarate

3

2

43.68

6.92E-04

0

0.01

1

 Pyruvate metabolism and Citric Acid (TCA) cycle

31

4

8.46

1.22E-03

0

0.01

1

 Arginine degradation I (arginase pathway)

4

2

32.78

1.37E-03

0

0.01

1

 Proline biosynthesis II (from arginine)

5

2

26.24

2.26E-03

0

0.01

1

 Arginine degradation VI (arginase 2 pathway)

6

2

21.87

3.36E-03

0

0.01

1

 Vitamin C (ascorbate) metabolism

6

2

21.87

3.36E-03

0

0.01

1

 Dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide biosynthesis

7

2

18.75

4.65E-03

0

0.01

1

 Signaling events mediated by HDAC Class I

113

6

3.48

7.84E-03

1

0.51

8.66E-01

 Signaling events mediated by HDAC Class II

38

4

6.90

2.62E-03

1

1.51

4.91E-01

 BMP receptor signaling

226

9

2.61

8.19E-03

5

1.26

3.66E-01

 Amino acid synthesis and interconversion (transamination)

10

3

19.67

3.92E-04

1

5.74

1.63E-01

Occipital scalp eQTLs

 BARD1 signaling events

29

1

2.28

3.61E-01

4

7.86

1.57E-03

 G0 and Early G1

21

0

0.01

1

3

8.15

5.66E-03

 TGFBR

125

4

2.10

1.25E-01

7

3.19

6.64E-03

 VEGF and VEGFR signaling network

1301

27

1.36

6.57E-02

35

1.53

8.04E-03

  1. eQTLs expression quantitative trait loci, GeneSet number of total genes in pathway term, n number of genes from the study overlapping the pathway term, P p-vlaue