Table 1

Relationship between the number of tissues in which a gene is expressed and a series of variables.

Variable
Correlation
Regression

Expression:


     Overall genes
0.706
2.034
     Non-Interacting (NI) genes only
0.709
1.802
     Interacting genes only
0.707
2.107
     Non-Disease (ND)
0.707
1.769
     Disease (D)
0.709
2.382
     Non-Interacting and Non-Disease
0.691
1.759
     Non-Interacting and Disease
0.764
2.039
     Interacting and Non-Disease
0.719
1.803
     Interacting and Disease
0.702
2.438

Proportion of interacting genes:


     Overall genes
0.949
0.012
     Non-Disease genes only
0.942
0.013
     Disease genes only
0.917
0.008

Proportion of disease genes:


     Overall
0.527
0.002
     Non-Interacting genes only
-0.263
-0.001
     Interacting genes only
-0.733
-0.004

Tissue specificity of interactors:


     Overall genes
0.887
0.112
     Non-Disease genes only
0.736
0.062
     Disease genes only
0.872
0.151

Proportion of disease genes among interactors:


     Overall genes
0.229
0.000
     Non-Disease genes only
-0.048
0.000
     Disease genes only
0.575
0.001

Reverter et al. BioData Mining 2008 1:8   doi:10.1186/1756-0381-1-8