Candidate genes Fold change* x Pdown Pnon Pup Confidence index (ci) Polony fold- change ± 95% CI Expression status CGR1 0.62 0.38 0.85 0.15 0.00 0.85 0.56 ± 0.03 D ELP6 1.01 0.50 0.02 0.95 0.03 0.95 0.98 ± 0.08 N GAL11 1.11 0.53 0.02 0.88 0.10 0.83 1.10 ± 0.06 N/U GOS1 1.55 0.61 0.00 0.19 0.81 0.71 1.21 ± 0.04 U ICS2 0.63 0.39 0.84 0.16 0.00 0.87 0.79 ± 0.05 D KIP3 1.01 0.50 0.02 0.97 0.01 0.97 1.10 ± 0.06 N/U PCL5 0.63 0.39 0.86 0.14 0.00 0.88 0.62 ± 0.08 D PLB1 1.84 0.65 0.00 0.03 0.97 0.93 1.71 ± 0.13 U YIP5 1.00 0.50 0.01 0.96 0.03 0.95 1.07 ± 0.04 N/U D = down-regulated, N = not differentially expressed and U = up-regulated. * Fold-change computed from the Affymetrix microarray data.

Table 2: Summary of the most important confirmatory experiment results: i) fold-change computed from the Affymetrix data and the corresponding fractional intensity (x), ii) the probabilities of expression status and corresponding confidence indexes, iii) the fold-change computed from polony technology data ±95% confidence intervals (CI), iv) expression status of the genes according to the confirmatory experiments.