Table 3.

Partial Correlations of Six Genomic Variables with dN/dS, θ_n, π_n, Frequency of Premature Stop Codons, and Frameshift Mutations

	dN/dS	θ n	π n	Stop Codons	Frameshifts
Expression level	−0.232***	−0.131***	−0.086***	Not significant	−0.090***
GC content (%)	−0.145***	−0.192***	−0.166***	−0.180***	−0.143***
Codon bias variance	−0.104***	−0.210***	−0.161***	−0.124***	−0.088***
Gene length	−0.108***	0.325***	0.181***	0.136***	−0.037*
Average intron length	−0.061***	−0.191***	−0.123***	0.084***	−0.109***
Gene density (per 100 kb)	0.039*	−0.137***	−0.116***	−0.054***	−0.029*

Note.—Spearman rank correlations controlling for remaining five variables; P values are Bonferroni corrected for multiple testing.

^* P < 0.01; **P < 10⁻⁶; ***P < 10⁻⁹.