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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Periodontol. 2010 Nov;37(11):953–961. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-051X.2010.01616.x

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Representative programs of pyrosequencing. The percentage on each CpG site is the methylation percentage of mC/(mC+C) on that site. mC, methylated cytosine; C, unmethylated cytosine. The sequence shown on the top of each panel is the assayed sequence. The x-axes are the dispensation nucleotides to the sequencing reaction based on the assayed sequences. The y-axes show light emission obtained as relative light units. The methylation percentage of one specific CpG site (− 295 bp) from a healthy gingival biopsy sample (a), which shows the value of methylation percentage of 71, and a chronic periodontitis sample (b), which shows a value of methylation percentage of 49 are illustrated. This percentage is calculated from the reference peak heights, marked as dark diamonds, which are non-CpG nucleotide sequences. The red diamond marks indicate “built-in” bisulphite controls in pyrosequencing.