Figure 1.

Gene expression variation is negatively correlated with protein interaction degree. The x-axis represents protein physical interaction degree, and the y-axis represents gene expression variation. A) The LOWESS fit to the gene expression variation. B) Bar-plot of the expression variation of all the genes with a given protein interaction degree together with the linear regression fit to the gene expression variation in relation to the interaction degree. The linear coefficient β = -0.0302, R² = 1.41%, and p-value = 9.704e-14. The red dots are the mean expression variation of the genes given the protein physical interaction (PPI) degree. The bar represents the standard deviation of the gene expression variation given PPI degree. To keep the same scale for gene expression variation across the figures, the range of the y-axis is -2.5 to 0.5.