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Table 9 Significant gene ontology terms annotated according to DAVID’s SP-PIR-Keywords

From: Transcriptome analysis of ageing in uninjured human Achilles tendon

Term

Count

Percentage

P value

GO terms identified in downregulated isoforms in old tendon

Signal

88

45.1

6.30 × 10−18

Secreted

58

29.7

7.04 × 10−15

Extracellular matrix

24

12.3

3.25 × 10−14

Glycoprotein

85

43.6

2.72 × 10−9

Collagen

12

6.2

1.62 × 10−7

Trimer

7

3.6

8.71 × 10−6

Hydroxylation

9

4.6

2.22 × 10−5

Triple helix

7

3.6

2.00 × 10−5

Hydroxylysine

7

3.6

2.00 × 10−5

Disulfide bond

57

29.2

1.85 × 10−5

Cell adhesion

18

9.2

3.57 × 10−5

Hydroxyproline

7

3.6

4.38 × 10−5

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

5

2.6

7.34 × 10−5

Angiogenesis

6

3.1

0.011506

Metalloprotease

8

4.1

0.016954

Pyroglutamic acid

5

2.6

0.021871

GO terms identified in upregulated isoforms in old tendon

Secreted

30

24.2

1.48 × 10−4

Plasma

7

5.6

0.003767

Signal

39

31.5

0.006761

Acute phase

4

3.2

0.052997

  1. Gene ontology (GO) terms were revealed in upregulated and downregulated differentially expressed gene isoforms of tendon ageing. P value represents Benjamini-Hochberg corrected P value. DAVID, Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery.