To relate gene expression signals to quantitative trait values, we used the (Pearson) correlation between a gene’s expression (NBDI-transformed or not, depending on the application) and the trait values for each sample. To select the genes that are relevant to a trait, the genes with the highest absolute value of the correlation were selected.
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