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Table 2 Pearson correlation coefficient (r) between a gene’s popularity (total number of mentions in the biomedical literature) and its overexpression in a disease according to the literature (0 = not mentioned, 1 = mentioned) or to microarray data (0 = not overexpressed, 1 = overexpressed)

From: Differential gene expression in disease: a comparison between high-throughput studies and the literature

  

AD

CD

PS

UC

Literature

 

0.167*

0.208*

0.219*

0.222*

Microarray

FC > 0

0.003

0.002

0.036*

0.031*

FC > 2

0.002

−0.002

0.026*

0.060*

  1. Asterisks indicate statistically significant values
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BMC Medical Genomics

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