Genetic Markers Can Predict Chondrogenic Differentiation Potential in Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells

Table 2

Correlation coefficients for expression levels of eight candidate predictive marker genes.

Gene	AURKB	E2F1	CDKN2D	LIF	ACLY	CD74	EFEMP1	TGM2
AURKB	1.000
E2F1	0.940^∗∗	1.000
CDKN2D	0.825^∗∗	0.899^∗∗	1.000
LIF	0.836^∗∗	0.905^∗∗	0.933^∗∗	1.000
ACLY	0.711^∗∗	0.811^∗∗	0.893^∗∗	0.889^∗∗	1.000
CD74	0.244	0.406	0.314	0.401	0.571^∗	1.000
EFEMP1	0.396	0.483	0.366	0.369	0.502	0.827^∗∗	1.000
TGM2	0.343	0.431	0.315	0.419	0.494	0.751^∗∗	0.785^∗∗	1.000

: Pearson correlation coefficient; , . Strong Pearson correlation coefficient: >0.75.