Fig. 2.

Short title: Global methylation in peripheral blood of SLE, SSc and healthy (C) subjects. A significant difference in global methylation between the study groups is indicated by the p-values. Long Title: Analysis of global methylation levels in peripheral blood of SLE, SSc and healthy control subjects (triplicate measurements). The dot plot shows a significant difference in global methylation between the patients and healthy subjects, which is also indicated by the p-values. However, SLE and SSc patients were not significantly different from each other although there was a trend towards lower values in the SSc group compared to the SLE group