Concordance of degree of methylation of 5′CGI(s) in UCWBC samples and gene expression levels in FPT samples.

Note: % of methylated cytosine in the CGI(s) (regions mark as BSPCR in Fig 2) was determined by bisulfite sequencing; levels of gene expression was measured as steady state transcript levels in FPT samples matched to UCWBC samples (n = 14) quantified by real time RT-PCR.
*The Kendall tau coefficient was calculated between % of methylation and gene expression; negative sign indicates inverse relationship. The larger the negative value means greater negative correlation and statistical significance was determined by a 2-tailed test with p<0.05.