Gene numbers associated with differential expression in adipose and grouped for QTL position.

Number of genes expressed >1.5-fold between the F and L lines in 3 distinct white adipose depots when fold-changes in muscle, liver and kidney were set to be between <1.5-fold different between F and L lines. The number of genes co-ordinately regulated in all 3 white fat depots (3 WAT) reduces the number of genes to those with a broad functional role (not depot-specific) in fat cell function (see text). FAT genes refer to genes with expression higher in F-line adipose tissue and LEAN genes refer to genes with expression higher in L-line adipose tissue. ↑ = increased expression, ↓ = decreased expression. The number after the/oblique in blue refers identified Entrez ID genes. The number in parenthesis indicates the number of genes within a QTL [5] as a percentage of the whole (genome wide column).