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 6.08e-01 2.61e-01 2.28e-01 3.83e-02 tier1 aging 2.46e-01 5.77e-02 5.97e-02 1.54e-02 Evaluating how well aging genes are linked to tier1 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 0.64 0.74 1.86 0.74 2.75 tier1 aging 0.65 1.50 1.88 1.30 2.42 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 0.00 1.20 1.27 0.70 0.62 tier1 aging 0.00 0.25 -0.02 0.02 1.33 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 22 22 tier1 31 30 MS4A