Table 2. PolyI:C and saline group comparison results of different assays.

LINE1				IAP			Mecp2
	Mean	s.d.	P-value	Mean	s.d.	P-value	Mean	s.d.	P-value
Hypothalamus
	0.696	0.006					0.265	0.067
PolyI:C	F 0.694	0.005		0.935	0.014		F 0.290	0.037
			0.019*						0.002**
	M 0.700	0.005					M 0.148	0.042
			F 0.005**			0.47			F 0.000***
	0.701	0.007					0.346	0.059
			M 0.885						M 0.202
Saline	F 0.702	0.007		0.931	0.012		F 0.362	0.046
	M 0.700	0.007					M 0.266	0.068
Striatum
	0.707	0.011		0.930	0.050		0.295	0.179
PolyI:C			0.29			0.85			0.37
Saline	0.704	0.010		0.936	0.066		0.345	0.121

Abbreviations: F, Female; IAP, intracisternal A particle; LINE1, long interspersed elements; M, Male; Mecp2, Methyl CpG Binding Protein2.

Mean methylation of all the markers for each assay. *P<0.05, **P<0.005 and ***P<0.0005.