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. 2010 Mar 16;11:178. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-178

Table 2.

Co-expression of gene pairs with short and long intergenic distances

Mean co-expression *

Type Intergenic distance
< 400 bp
Intergenic distance
> 400 bp
Bi-directional 0.152 0.060
Uni-directional 0.062 0.100
Convergent 0.024 0.050

* Pearson Correlation; mean co-expression of random gene pairs is 0.014