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Published in final edited form as: Hum Mol Genet. 2006 Sep 19;15(21):3132–3145. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddl253

Table 2.

Frequency of MB-COMT promoter methylation in the SMRI samples as determined by MSP

	Methylated/total (%)
Frontal lobe hemisphere	Left	Right	Total
Schizophrenia	5/17 (29)	4/18 (22)	9/35 (26)
Bipolar	6/20 (30)	4/15 (27)	10/35 (29)
Control	13/16 (81)	8/19 (42)	21/35 (60)
Comparison	OR (95% CI); P	OR (95% CI); P	OR (95% CI); P
Control versus schizophrenia	0.10 (0.01–0.61); 0.003	0.39 (0.10–1.59); 0.197	0.23 (0.07–0.71); 0.004
Control versus bipolar disorder	0.10 (0.02–0.46); 0.002	0.50, (0.12–2.07); 0.350	0.27 (0.09–0.80); 0.008