Contingency Tables and Fisher's Exact Test Results for Primate-Specific Gene Comparisons

Contingency tables and Fisher's exact test results for three comparisons of primate-specific genes across different expression breadth categories. The dataset includes results for 'wide 10' genes (highly expressed in at least 10 tissues), 'narrow 10' genes (highly expressed in less than 10 tissues), and tissue-specific genes for brain and immune tissues. Xiao Liang published this 5.5 KB Excel file on figshare in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Perform statistical validation of enrichment patterns for primate-specific genes based on expression breadth categories.
• Compare odds ratios to assess the likelihood of genes being primate-specific between different gene sets.
• Identify statistically significant associations (p < 0.01) between tissue-specific expression and primate lineage evolution.

Strengths

• Statistical significance is clearly marked with two asterisks (**) for p-values less than 0.01.
• The dataset provides odds ratios for interpreting the direction of association between gene groups and primate specificity.
• The union of 'wide 10' and 'narrow 10' genes corresponds to complete gene sets of specified sizes (1019 and 586).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 17:31:50; freshness should be verified.