Comparative transcriptomics in the Triticeae

BMC Genomics

Table 2 Expression profile conservation versus sequence conservation.

Gene pair	<C>	N	P-Value
B – W₁	0.33
		24	0.012
B – W₂	0.15
W – B₁	0.51
		94	0.087
W – B₂	0.43

The correlation of gene expression profiles in wheat and barley increases with similarity of gene sequence. Gene pairs refer to those shown in Figure 7A (top two rows) and 7B (bottom two rows). <C> refers to the average Pearson correlation for the expression profiles of these gene pairs. N is the sample size and the P-value is calculated using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test.

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