Fig. 4

Scatterplot of Gene Significance (GS) for backfat vs. Module Membership (MM) in candidate modules. The figure shows the significance of the genes in the four modules. The x-axis represents the value of membership in each module, and the y-axis represents gene significance for backfat; a, b, c, and d represent the genes in the black, brown, blue, and turquoise modules, respectively. The gene in the upper right corner of each graph is the hub gene that we need to look for. These genes are highly correlated with phenotypes and have a high MM, which is a good representation of the gene module