Correlation of mirtron and host gene expression.

<p>(A) We calculated the Pearson correlation coefficients of the accumulation of mouse mirtron-derived small RNAs and spliced RNA-seq reads directly flanking the mirtron across seven tissues. We also performed 100 control comparisons where the tissue origins were shuffled. The cumulative distribution function (CDF) of these correlations was plotted, and observed to be significantly positively correlated (by Mann-Whitney U-test). (B) The binned distribution of mirtron/mRNA Pearson correlation coefficients was plotted. This visualization emphasizes their positive correlation, but also highlights a subset of discordant loci. (C) Examples of correlated and discordant expression of mirtron-derived miRNAs and host mRNAs across tissues. We show host level gene expression as reads per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads (RPKM) and the spliced exonic reads that directly cross the mirtronic locus as reads per million mapped reads (RPM). Mirtron-derived miRNAs are quantified as reads per million mapped miRNA reads (RPMM).