Table 3.

Partial correlation analysis for miRNA-targeted cancer gene expression with miRNA hits, CpG methylation and histone modifications

Factors	Partial correlation for disease gene expression	Level of Significance
Number of miRNA hits	−0.345 (controlling CpG methylation ratio and histone modification rate)	1.6 × 10−2
CpG methylation ratio	0.169 (controlling histone modification and miRNA hits)	2.5 × 10−1
Histone modification rate	0.143 (controlling miRNA hits and CpG methylation ratio)	3.3 × 10−1