Figure 3. Limited variability prevents quantification.

(A–,C) The Spearman correlation coefficient between genes as a function of genomic distance, contact frequency, and median distance. Black lines and dots are means and error bars are SEM from bootstrapping (Appendix 1), boxplots show the quartiles as above. (D) Average correlation coefficients of genes given that their genomic distance and contact frequencies were within a specific range. (E) Average correlation coefficient of genes given that their genomic distance and median distance were within the specific range. An * illustrates whether the average correlation coefficients along that dimension are correlated (p-value<0.01) (Appendix 1).