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Published in final edited form as: Andrology. 2016 Apr 18;4(5):832–842. doi: 10.1111/andr.12170

Table 4.

The average epigenetic difference (M-values) observed from semen samples collected either within or beyond 75 days from the same patient.

Genomic Regiona
Genome Island Shore Shelf TSS1500 TSS200 5′UTR 1st Exon Body 3′UTR
Global CpGs < 75
days
ΔM-valueb −0.0276
(0.0061)
0.0062
(0.0179)
−0.0231
(0.0122)
−0.0595
(0.0119)
−0.0093
(0.0125)
0.0050
(0.0168)
−0.0117
(0.0097)
−0.0038
(0.0147)
−0.0437
(0.0074)
−0.0473
(0.0057)
|ΔM-value|b 0.3038
(0.0063)
0.3005
(0.0045)
0.3120
(0.0062)
0.3092
(0.0112)
0.3051
(0.0051)
0.2899
(0.0040)
0.2998
(0.0049)
0.3005
(0.0044)
0.3087
(0.0082)
0.3074
(0.0089)
> 75
days
ΔM-valueb −0.0648
(0.0021)
−0.1212
(0.0135)
−0.1189
(0.0113)
0.0193
(0.0022)
−0.1092
(0.0082)
−0.0903
(0.0097)
−0.0736
(0.0044)
−0.0891
(0.0087)
−0.0412
(0.0010)
−0.0258
(0.0017)
|ΔM-value|b 0.3092
(0.0119)
0.3052
(0.0106)
0.3361
(0.0173)
0.2800
(0.0060)
0.3146
(0.0120)
0.2813
(0.0077)
0.2935
(0.0087)
0.2942
(0.0087)
0.3070
(0.0112)
0.3025
(0.0102)
Imprinted CpGs < 75
days
ΔM-valueb −0.0338
(0.0081)
−0.0095
(0.0157)
−0.0221
(0.0111)
−0.0689
(0.0278)
−0.0014
(0.0139)
0.0023
(0.0189)
−0.0253
(0.0083)
−0.0075
(0.0208)
−0.0574
(0.0125)
−0.0306
(0.0027)
|ΔM-value|b 0.3134
(0.0074)
0.3110
(0.0054)
0.3218
(0.0080)
0.3128
(0.0123)
0.3105
(0.0058)
0.3022
(0.0041)
0.3121
(0.0069)
0.3164
(0.0061)
0.3204
(0.0102)
0.3197
(0.0099)
> 75
days
ΔM-valueb −0.0893
(0.0073)
−0.1525
(0.0218)
−0.1350
(0.0197)
0.0250
(0.0026)
−0.1609
(0.0218)
−0.1250
(0.0104)
−0.1139
(0.0098)
−0.1555
(0.0237)
−0.0421
(0.0028)
−0.1254
(0.0183)
|ΔM-value|b 0.3323
(0.0175)
0.3404
(0.0196)
0.3673
(0.0277)
0.2809
(0.0086)
0.3468
(0.0231)
0.3139
(0.0147)
0.3353
(0.0192)
0.3488
(0.0204)
0.3256
(0.0155)
0.3699
(0.0273)
a

probe genomic location are provided in the annotation file supplied by Illumina

b

values are reported as the mean of the mean patient methylation difference and the mean square between