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Table 4 Genome-wide measures of altered DNAm in high-risk MTHFR and reference placentas

From: No evidence for association of MTHFR 677C>T and 1298A>C variants with placental DNA methylation

 

Array-wide average DNAm (β)

Outlier array sites (%)

Alu DNAm (%)

LINE-1 DNAm (%)

rDNAm (%)

Reference (N = 10)

0.407 (0.396–0.413)

0.661 (0.262–0.993)

18.9 (17.6–21.7)

52.8 (51.0–53.8)

19.4 (11.2–30.9)

High-risk 677 (N = 10)

0.405 (0.397–0.409)

0.851 (0.262–6.357)

20.1 (15.7–21.4)

53.5 (49.8–57.6)

20.0 (8.4–28.9)

High-risk 1298 (N = 10)

0.405 (0.395–0.413)

1.14 (0.501–3.37)

19.8 (17.5–21.6)

51.0 (46.5–55.0)

22.9 (10.2–28.9)

  1. All results are reported as median (range); p values were calculated by the Mann-Whitney test for the comparison of high-risk 677 or high-risk 1298 to the reference group with Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons
  2. β beta value, rDNAm ribosomal RNA genes