Genomic Regionality in Rates of Evolution Is Not Explained by Clustering of Genes of Comparable Expression Profile

Table 5.

Correlation Between Expression Rate and K4 for Putative Housekeeping Genes



Human—mouse

Mouse—rat
Rate measurea
r
P
N
r
P
N
All genes
    SAGE (human) 0.026 0.761 141
    Microarray (human) -0.134 0.079 172
    SAGE (mouse) -0.068 0.388 166 -0.003 0.96 305
    Microarray (mouse) -0.029 0.684 196 -0.050 0.33 391
GC4≤0.5
    SAGE (human) -0.446 0.006 37
    Microarray (human) -0.038 0.838 32
    SAGE (mouse) -0.401 0.005 47 -0.089 0.43 80
    Microarray (mouse)
-0.137
0.319
55
-0.006
0.96
93
  • a Rate measures were not averaged over human and mouse in this table to retain acceptable sample sizes. Only nondisparate gene pairs were included.

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