Table 2

Correlation analysis of human and mouse orthologous genes. r indicates the Pearson correlation coefficient of the A-C test p values for orthologs expressed in at least 3 normal tissues in common in human and mouse and expressed in at least one human tissue and one mouse tissue with p < threshold.

p value threshold
No. of ortholog pairs
ave r
ave r (r ≥ 0)
ave r (r < 0)
No. of pairs with r ≥ 0
No. of pairs with r < 0

No
6585
0.20
0.39
-0.25
4571 (69.42%)
2014 (30.58%)
5.00E-02
5199
0.23
0.43
-0.26
3591 (69.07%)
1608 (30.93%)
5.00E-03
2736
0.38
0.50
-0.20
2262 (82.68%)
474 (17.32%)
5.00E-04
1889
0.47
0.56
-0.21
1687 (89.31%)
202 (10.69%)
5.00E-05
1114
0.55
0.61
-0.22
1012 (90.84%)
102 (9.16%)
1.00E-06
892
0.60
0.65
-0.19
836 (93.72%)
56 (6.28%)

ave = average

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