Plot of the DNA methylation status and mRNA expression level of CXCL5 based on methylation-specific PCR and quantitative real-time RT-PCR, respectively, in five cell lines and five tumour samples. The mRNA expression levels have been normalised to the expression of the house-keeping gene GAPDH and then to the average expression level of the two normal osteoblast samples. The DNA methylation status is indicated with coloured circles; black, full methylation, grey, partial methylation. The DNA methylation and mRNA expression levels based on the microarray data are indicated for the cell lines; N, normal methylation; H, hyper-methylation; U, under-expression.