Figure S3 The highest correlation between protein transcript levels. Found at: doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001393.s006 (TIF) and Figure S4 Average correlations of the transcript and protein product of the genes grouped by assigned GO categories. Found at: doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001393.s007 (TIF) Figure S5 Distribution of the SNP effects for local and distant eQTLs and pQTLs. Found at: doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001393.s008 (TIF) Table S1 Concordance between immunoblot experiments and LCMS data. Found at: doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001393.s009 (DOC) Table S2 Immunoblotting results. Found at: doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001393.s010 (DOC) Table S3 Biological representation of protein and transcript datasets. Found at: doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001393.s011 (DOC) Table S4 Correlation analysis of the GO terms for the protein- transcript pairs. Found at: doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001393.s012 (DOC) References 1. 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