Systematic Analysis of Pleiotropy in C. elegans Early Embryogenesis
Figure 7
Distribution of pleiotropy indices.
We define Pleiotropy Index (PI) as the number of functional classes a gene is assigned to. We plot the distribution of genes with different PIs in a pie chart. We observe that more than half of the genes are pleiotropic (PI≥2), and only 3% of the genes are highly pleiotropic (PI≥5).