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. 2014 Jun 23;9(6):e100924. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100924

Table 1. Summary statistics and counts of cis- and trans-eQTLs at thresholds by R2 or |β|.

cis-eQTL(n = 3,804 by FDR <5%) trans-eQTL(n = 165 by FWER <5%)
All mRNA lincRNA Other All mRNA lincRNA Other
#eQTLs-transcript pairs 3,804 2,995 293 516 165 91 49 25
#unique eQTLs 3,385 2,779 244 440 105 65 34 21
#unique transcripts (%) 3,804 (12.5%) 2,995 (15.1%) 293 (4.8%) 516 (11.6%) 114 (0.4%) 60 (0.3%) 34 (0.6%) 20 (0.4%)
#unique genes (%) 2,973 (16.9%) 2,667 (17.3%) 0 357 (10.9%) 74 (0.4%) 57 (0.4%) 0 17 (0.5%)
#unique transcripts without gene ID 455 28 293 134 54 1 49 4
R 2 mean±SD 0.19±0.15 0.19±0.15 0.20±0.16 0.21±0.18 0.27±0.12 0.27±0.12 0.29±0.13 0.23±0.07
R 2 median±IQR 0.13±0.15 0.13±0.14 0.13±0.15 0.15±0.17 0.23±0.12 0.23±0.12 0.26±0.11 0.21±0.09
|β| mean±SD 0.33±0.33 0.32±0.32 0.38±0.33 0.38±0.34 0.53±0.35 0.50±0.38 0.59±0.31 0.51±0.33
|β| median±IQR 0.24±0.24 0.23±0.23 0.30±0.31 0.28±0.25 0.47±0.41 0.40±0.44 0.58±0.34 0.43±0.34
Stat. Cutoff
R 2 0.1 2,568 2,022 192 354 165 91 49 25
0.3 665 500 56 109 45 25 15 5
0.5 245 171 22 52 10 5 5 0
0.7 67 43 8 16 2 2 0 0
0.9 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
|β| 0.3 1,440 1,053 146 241 118 60 40 18
0.9 155 122 11 22 23 13 6 4
1.5 55 44 3 8 3 1 1 1
2.1 26 19 2 5 1 1 0 0
2.7 12 9 1 2 1 1 0 0

FDR: false discovery rate; FWER: family-wise error rate; SD: standard deviation; IQR: inter-quartile range; R 2: proportion of phenotypic variances explained by genotypes; |β|: absolute value of coefficient of genotypes.

The sum of #unique eQTLs counted within RNA types is not necessarily equal to #unique eQTLs counted for all transcripts because the same eQTLs may be counted in more than one RNA types. The number of genes for All and each type do not match for a similar reason.