Table 3.

Correlation Between Synonymous Substitution Rate (K4) and Expression Breadth



Human—mouse

Mouse—rat
Breadth measurea
rb
P
N
rb
P
N
All genes
    EST -0.203 <0.00001 1247 -0.063 0.00088 2759
    SAGE -0.125 0.00007 1057 -0.088 <0.00001 2579
    Microarray -0.187 0.00003 596 -0.057 0.0237 1592
GC≤0.5
    EST -0.341 <0.00001 322 -0.165 0.00011 570
    SAGE -0.242 0.00011 260 -0.202 <0.00001 565
    Microarray
-0.339
0.00002
148
-0.090
0.098
340

a Breadth of expression was averaged over experiments in human and mouse for the human—mouse comparison, and was obtained from mouse only in the mouse—rat comparison.

b Pearson's correlation coefficient between expression breadth and K4. Only nondisparate gene pairs were included.