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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2011 Jan 19;91(2):69–76. doi: 10.1002/bdra.20761

Table 5.

Spearman partial correlation between long interspersed nucleotide elements (LINE-1) methylation and selected biomarkersa

LINE-1 Methylation
Biomarker Correlation Coefficient P-valueb
Homocysteine −0.135 0.013
Methionine 0.099 0.069
SAM 0.007 0.903
SAH −0.067 0.216
SAM/SAH 0.048 0.381
Folate 0.057 0.294
a

SAM, S-adenosylmethionine; SAH, S-adenosylhomocysteine.

b

Adjusted for age, race, vitamin supplementation, smoking, alcohol consumption, and body mass index (BMI).