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Table 1 Overview of eQTL analysis results based on obtained population-wide gene expression profiles for potato tuber and leaf tissue

From: Organ specificity and transcriptional control of metabolic routes revealed by expression QTL profiling of source-sink tissues in a segregating potato population

A

      

Nr of QTLS per Feature*

1

2

3

4

5

Total nr of QTLs

Nr of Features

12331

2269

213

19

2

17594

B

      

QTL Expl. Var. %

> 10%

> 20%

> 30%

> 50%

> 70%

> 90%

Nr of QTLs Tuber

12192

10974

7306

3930

1856

293

Cis (%)

7550 (61.9)

7243(66.0)

5699 (78.0)

3279 (83.4)

1515 (81.6)

248 (84.6)

Trans (%)

3629 (29.8)

2792(25.4)

935 (12.8)

269 (6.8)

127 (6.8)

10 (3.4)

Unknown (%)

1013 (8.3)

939 (8.6)

672 (9.2)

382 (9.7)

214(11.5)

35 (11.9)

Nr of QTLs Leaf

10745

9629

6644

3884

1897

388

Cis (%)

7574 (70.5)

7211 (74.9)

5517 (83.0)

3239 (83.4)

1552 (81.8)

297 (76.5)

Trans (%)

2180 (20.3)

1536 (16.0)

497 (7.5)

255 (6.6)

118 (6.2)

27 (7.0)

Unknown (%)

991 (9.2)

882 (9.2)

630 (9.5)

390 (10.0)

227 (12.0)

64 (16.5)

C

      

Tissue Comparison

Nr of eQTLs

Cis (%)

Trans (%)

Unknown (%)

  

Leaf + Tuber eQTL

5818

4929 (84.7)

401 (6.9)

488 (8.4)

  

Leaf Unique eQTL

5126

2839 (55.4)

1784 (34.8)

503 (9.8)

  

Tuber unique eQTL

6650

2882 (43.3)

3243 (48.8)

525 (7.9)

  

Tissue dependent**

1713

530 (30.9)

977 (57.0)

285 (12.0)

  
  1. * Leaf + Tuber data
  2. ** eQTL both in leaf and tuber but non-overlapping