Table 3.

Methylation rate of control, DM, and DKD patients.

Target	Control	DM	DKD	p (DM vs. DKD)
P-1	50.27% ± 2.18%	91.14% ± 3.54%⁣∗	89.56% ± 3.45%⁣∗	0.750
P-2	0.56% ± 0.04%	1.07% ± 0.16%⁣∗	1.48% ± 0.21%⁣∗	0.124
P-3	0.28% ± 0.02%	0.59% ± 0.10%	0.59% ± 0.11%	0.570
E-1	32.85% ± 0.70%	25.14% ± 0.57%⁣∗	21.94% ± 0.61%⁣∗#	< 0.001

⁣^∗p < 0.01 versus control; ^#p < 0.01 versus DM.