Table 4.
Descriptive Statistics for Pairwise Comparison of Neighboring Genes According to Orientation of Transcription
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|
|
R (Pearson correlation coefficient) |
Intergenic distance (bp) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
Orientation |
N |
Mean R ± se |
Median R |
Mean bp ± se |
Median bp |
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| Complete dataset without tandem duplicates (Affymetrix data) | ←→ | 2212 | 0.106 ± 0.007 | 0.08866 | 2770 ± 65.3 | 1872 | ||
| →→/←← | 4201 | 0.104 ± 0.0051 | 0.07831 | 2093.7 ± 33.7 | 1351 | |||
| →← | 2241 | 0.071 ± 0.0068 | 0.05515 | 1147.6 ± 37.4 | 597 | |||
| Tandem duplicates only (Affymetrix data) | ←→ | 38 | 0.391 ± 0.055 | 0.4734 | 7758 ± 600 | 7621 | ||
| →→/←← | 445 | 0.27 ± 0.018 | 0.2563 | 5427 ± 142 | 4625 | |||
|
|
→←
|
36
|
0.158 ± 0.064
|
0.2519
|
5377 ± 491
|
4879
|
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Intergenic distance is defined as the distance between the last coding position of the first gene, on either strand, to the first coding position on the next gene.
