Disrupted methylation patterns at birth persist in early childhood: a prospective cohort analysis

Clinical Epigenetics

Table 2 Correlation of DNA methylation between cord blood at birth and saliva in childhood

Family	Correlation (R²) using all CpGs*	Correlation using Ghosh 90 k age-related CpGs	Correlation using Tajuddin 53 k AA age-related CpGs	Correlation using Tajuddin 26 k EA age-related CpGs	Correlation using Tajuddin 14 k union {AA + EA} age-related CpGs
A	0.931	0.951	0.932	0.913	0.909
B˜	0.929	0.946	0.920	0.906	0.902
C˜	0.923	0.941	0.908	0.889	0.884
Da	0.941	0.960	0.935	0.914	0.911
Db	0.936	0.956	0.928	0.910	0.906
E	0.952	0.958	0.958	0.940	0.939
F^	0.891	0.926	0.871	0.855	0.846
G	0.965	0.973	0.959	0.947	0.945
I	0.922	0.943	0.909	0.894	0.888
Ja^	0.942	0.958	0.938	0.920	0.916
Jb^	0.920	0.941	0.911	0.894	0.885
Ka	0.926	0.946	0.925	0.902	0.900
Kb	0.924	0.940	0.923	0.903	0.899
M	0.927	0.951	0.915	0.897	0.891
N	0.955	0.970	0.953	0.938	0.936
Oa	0.921	0.944	0.912	0.893	0.885
Ob	0.922	0.945	0.905	0.886	0.878
P	0.943	0.961	0.941	0.922	0.918
R	0.898	0.933	0.879	0.858	0.849
S	0.915	0.935	0.915	0.896	0.893
T	0.936	0.953	0.927	0.905	0.901
U^	0.908	0.931	0.897	0.880	0.870
V	0.932	0.951	0.927	0.903	0.900
W	0.950	0.964	0.946	0.930	0.926

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