Table 2. Spearman correlation coefficients for global DNA methylation between maternal vs. newborn pairs, combined and stratified by newborn sex.

	Methyl-incorporation	Alu	LINE-1	LUMA
	r (n)	r (n)	r (n)	r (n)
Total Sample	0.32 (98)**	0.15 (99)	0.21 (100)*	0.22 (101)*
Male newborns	0.35 (56)**	−0.05 (57)	0.39 (58)**	0.12 (58)
Female newborns	0.31 (42)*	0.42 (42)**	−0.02 (42)	0.37 (43)*

^*p<0.05;

^**p<0.01.