Table 2.

Correlation of the gene expression levels in four tissues.

Tissues	Correlations	Visceral adipose	Subcutaneous adipose	Intramuscular adipose	Muscle
Visceral adipose	Pearson correlation	1	0.975**	0.244**	0.0002
	Sig. (2-tailed)		0	2.81E-56	0.991
Subcutaneous adipose	Pearson correlation	0.979**	1	0.233**	−0.002
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0		1.68E-51	0.922
Intramuscular adipose	Pearson correlation	0.921**	0.931**	1	0.116**
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0	0		9.68E-14
Muscle	Pearson correlation	0.508**	0.525**	0.565**	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0	0	0

The data in the lower left corner are based on the analysis of all gene expression levels. The data in the upper right corner are the results of an analysis based on the expression level of tissue-specific expressed genes.

^**P < 0.01.