Figure 3

Correlation between mRNA expression and decay rate. (a) Spearman's rank correlation rho between gene expression from each of the 79 human tissues and mRNA decay rates, and corresponding p-values (-log₁₀(p-values)) for the correlation coefficients. (b) Distribution of the average mRNA decay rates, which were obtained from comparing gene expression in each of the 79 human tissues, for 5 mRNA expression groups with increasing expression values from the group [1-20] to the group (81,100]. (c) Distribution of the average mRNA expression values in the 79 human tissues for 5 mRNA decay rate groups with increasing mRNA decay rate from the group [1-20] to the group (81,100]. Exp: mRNA expression; MDR: mRNA decay rate.