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. 2008 Mar 31;9:148. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-148

Table 1.

Distribution of microarray targets showing significant (p < 0.05) expression differences between male and female 18 day embryos in brain, heart, and gonad.

Tissue Significantly Expressed Targets Absolute log2 Fold Change Female Male Total Biased Targets
Heart Autosomes 11892 > 1 122 (1.0%) 44 (0.4%) 166 (1.4%)
> 1.5 30 (0.3%) 7 (0.06%) 37 (0.4%)
> 2 14 (0.1%) 2 (0.02%) 16 (0.3%)

Z chromosome 480 > 1 7 (1.4%) 54 (11.3%) 61 (12.7%)
> 1.5 4 (0.8%) 10 (2.1%) 14 (2.9%)
> 2 4 (0.8%) 1 (0.2%) 5 (1.0%)

Brain Autosomes 12454 > 1 55 (0.4%) 72 (0.6%) 127 (1%)
> 1.5 16 (0.2%) 17 (0.1%) 33 (0.3%)
> 2 8 (0.06%) 5 (0.04%) 13 (0.1%)

Z chromosome 525 > 1 4 (0.8%) 78 (15%) 82 (15.8%)
> 1.5 3 (0.6%) 4 (0.8%) 7 (1.4%)
> 2 2 (0.4%) 0 (0.0%) 2 (0.4%)

Gonad Autosomes 12746 > 1 1292 (10.1%) 936 (7.4%) 2228 (17.5%)
> 1.5 751 (5.9%) 474 (3.7%) 1225 (9.6%)
> 2 484 (3.8%) 251 (2.0%) 735 (5.8%)

Z chromosome 555 > 1 27 (4.9%) 187 (33.7%) 214 (38.6%)
> 1.5 20 (3.6%) 71 (12.8%) 91 (16.4%)
> 2 12 (2.2%) 28 (5.0%) 40 (7.2%)

All tissues* Autosomes 9124 > 1 3 (0.03%) 1 (0.01%) 4 (0.04%)

Z 372 > 1 0 (0%) 15 (4.0%) 15 (4.0%)

* same direction