Table 2

Estimates of model parameters λ and I

Gene

Correlation

λ estimate

I (intercept estimate)

ACTB

0.9818035

6.802453 × 109

-1.208535 × 109

GAPDH

0.6946698

2.122443 × 108

-4.484740 × 107

DDR1

0.9838246

1.370801 × 106

-2.441642 × 105

PIK3

0.9148329

8.885468 × 103

-1.719060 × 103

PNN

0.9160348

4.000586 × 107

-7.723061 × 106

ZCCHC7

0.9827101

3.656176 × 106

-6.591370 × 105

POLH

0.1149602

-2.590916 × 1010

-2.015157 × 109

ATP5L

0.6793007

1.464513 × 109

-2.127757 × 108

GNAS

0.8224466

2.762874 × 107

-5.596301 × 106

λ and I were estimated by regressing biological variability on

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. We also computed the Pearson correlation coefficients to measure the correlation between the biological variability estimates from our analytical model and the biological variability observed in the validation experiment.

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