Figure 3.

Examples of genes showing conserved tissue-specific patterns across NHPs. On the heatmap, columns are AceView human gene symbols and rows are individual tissue samples. Same tissues from different species were grouped together as indicated by the color bands and labels on the right side of the heatmap. The color on the heatmap indicates the relative gene expression abundance in individual tissue samples. The relative expression abundance was calculated as log 2 transformed normalized sFPKM subtracted by the median of log 2 transformed normalized sFPKMs across all tissue samples for the same gene, therefore a unit of 1 is equal to a 2-fold increase in abundance in a tissue compared to the median of all samples from the same tissue.