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 3.50e-01 8.98e-02 5.44e-01 1.19e-02 tier1_ad aging 1.71e-01 4.80e-02 8.84e-01 4.72e-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 0.64 1.33 1.48 0.74 2.81 tier1_ad aging 0.49 0.00 -1.19 -0.02 -0.32 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 1.61 1.23 0.35 0.78 tier1_ad aging 0.00 -0.10 -0.40 -0.19 -0.16 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 64 64 tier1_ad 31 30 MS4A