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. 2012 Jan 3;7(1):e29686. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029686

Table 5. Concordance between differential methylation and differential expression.

Cancer types Hypermethylation Hypomethylation
Gene§ number Concordance rate P value Gene§number Concordance rate P value
Colon 107 91.6% 7.7*10−9 157 50.3% 0.99
Kidney 254 86.6% 1.5*10−12 302 39.4% 0.397
Lung 34 88.2% 1.5*10−6 88 62.5% 4.2*10−6
§

Gene number denotes the number of hypermethylated (or hypomethylated) genes which were determined to be differentially expressed in the expression data.