Comparing distributions of experimental and random diffusion values (p-values for KS tests) Seeds Recipients Randomize Seeds (degree-matched) Randomize Recipients (degree-matched) Randomize Seeds (uniform) Randomize Recipients (uniform) aging tier1_ad 9.44e-01 1.08e-01 9.34e-01 9.43e-03 tier1_ad aging 4.59e-01 2.91e-01 7.69e-01 6.63e-01 Evaluating how well aging genes are linked to tier1_ad genes, comparing against random ROC results Seeds Recipients AUROC Z-score for Random Seeds (degree-matched) Z-score for Random Recipients (degree-matched) Z-score for Random Seeds (uniform) Z-score for Random Recipients (uniform) aging tier1_ad 0.66 1.18 1.80 1.11 2.99 tier1_ad aging 0.52 0.51 0.31 0.02 0.64 PRC results Seeds Recipients AUPRC Z-score for Random Seeds (degree-matched) Z-score for Random Recipients (degree-matched) Z-score for Random Seeds (uniform) Z-score for Random Recipients (uniform) aging tier1_ad 0.00 0.07 0.95 0.64 1.55 tier1_ad aging 0.00 -0.11 -0.07 -0.27 -0.07 Z-scores are computed for the experimental area under ROC or PRC based on distributions of the random areas under these curves Seeds: Genes where diffusion signal starts FROM) Recipients: Genes that receive the diffusion signal and that are in the other validated group Random genes are selected either uniformly or degree matched Number of genes ** #Total # Mapped in the network Not mapped genes aging 45 45 tier1_ad 31 30 MS4A