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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 Dec 23;24(3):490–497. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0853

Table 2.

Summary of intraclass correlation coefficients (β-scale) of CpG locus methylation, by genomic location and probe type, X chromosome.1

Δβ < 0.1
0.1 ≤ Δβ < 0.2
Δβ ≥ 0.2
Location/probe type ICC
Percent loci by ICC range
Percent loci by ICC range
Percent loci by ICC range
Percent loci by ICC range
N Median IQR 0 – 0.5 0.5 – 0.8 0.8 – 1 N 0 – 0.5 0.5 – 0.8 0.8 – 1 N 0 – 0.5 0.5 – 0.8 0.8 – 1 N 0 – 0.5 0.5 – 0.8 0.8 – 1
All CpG loci 11215 0.80 0.60 0.89 18.5 31.8 49.7 9014 23.0 38.4 38.6 2161 0.1 5.0 95.0 40 0.0 2.5 97.5
Enhancer 629 0.84 0.71 0.91 9.9 31.5 58.7 478 13.0 40.2 46.9 149 0.0 4.0 96.0 2 0.0 0.0 100.0
Known DMR2 1231 0.85 0.72 0.91 10.6 27.8 61.6 936 14.0 34.9 51.1 290 0.0 5.2 94.8 5 0.0 0.0 100.0
Location with respect to CpG island:
 CpG Island 4272 0.82 0.67 0.90 13.2 32.0 54.8 3391 16.6 38.9 44.4 867 0.0 5.2 94.8 14 0.0 0.0 100.0
 Shore3 2837 0.82 0.63 0.90 17.3 29.7 53.0 2176 22.5 37.2 40.3 649 0.3 5.1 94.6 12 0.0 0.0 100.0
 Shelf3 1138 0.71 0.46 0.85 28.0 36.3 35.7 1003 31.8 40.4 27.8 130 0.0 6.2 93.8 5 0.0 0.0 100.0
Functional location:
 TSS1500 2777 0.80 0.60 0.90 18.5 31.3 50.2 2211 23.2 38.4 38.4 555 0.0 3.4 96.6 11 0.0 0.0 100.0
 TSS200 2441 0.82 0.67 0.90 13.5 31.4 55.1 1866 17.5 39.3 43.2 564 0.4 5.9 93.8 11 0.0 9.1 90.9
 5′UTR 2401 0.82 0.67 0.90 13.2 32.1 54.7 1873 16.9 39.6 43.5 522 0.0 5.6 94.4 6 0.0 0.0 100.0
 1st Exon 1635 0.83 0.67 0.90 12.3 32.9 54.8 1293 15.5 40.7 43.8 340 0.0 3.5 96.5 2 0.0 0.0 100.0
 Body 2893 0.76 0.52 0.88 23.3 32.5 44.2 2407 28.0 38.3 33.7 481 0.0 3.7 96.3 5 0.0 0.0 100.0
 3′UTR 513 0.71 0.44 0.84 28.7 37.4 33.9 466 31.5 40.1 28.3 46 0.0 10.9 89.1 1 0.0 0.0 100.0
Location by probe type:
Infinium I 3042 0.78 0.60 0.87 16.8 38.3 44.8 2444 20.9 45.7 33.4 583 0.2 8.4 91.4 15 0.0 6.7 93.3
Infinium II 8173 0.81 0.60 0.90 19.1 29.4 51.5 6570 23.7 35.7 40.6 1578 0.1 3.7 96.3 25 0.0 0.0 100.0
1

All estimates are adjusted for cell-type composition. Δβ is estimated as twice the between-person standard error (β-scale).

2

DMR: differentially methylated region; TSS: transcription start site; UTR: untranslated region.

3

Shores: up to 2 kb from CpG islands; shelves: from 2 to 4 kb from CpG islands.