Table 3. Correlations between semen parameters and chromatin/DNA integrity, DNA methylation, and DNMT expression.

The Spearman correlation test was used. In each cell, the top value is r and the bottom is the p-value. The p-values <0.05 were considered to indicate statistical significance.

AB, aniline blue; TB, toluidine blue; TUNEL, terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling; CMA3, chromomycin A3.