Coexpression of Neighboring Genes in the Genome of Arabidopsis thaliana

Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics for Gene Pairs in the Same Metabolic Pathway and Those Not in the Same Metabolic Pathway




R (Pearsons correlation coefficient)

Intergenic distance (bp)
Gene pairs
N
Mean R ± se
Median R
Mean bp ± se
Median bp
In same metabolic pathway 72 0.2268 ± 0.0448 0.2566 19115 ± 1441 19180
Not known to be in same metabolic pathway
840
0.0756 ± 0.0111
0.0422
19160 ± 464
17614
  • Microarray data was from the Affymetrix data set with tandem duplicates not included. A gene pair is defined as a pair of genes which have no more than 10 intervening genes separating them in the genome.

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