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. 2019 Oct 18;10:1001. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01001

Table 3.

Comparison of 5 gene methylation levels and semen quality/hormone level in all subjects.

Sperm motility (% moving forward) Concentration
(106 spermatozoa/ml)
Sperm vitality (% alive) FSH LH T
r P r P r P r P r P r P
Neither nicotine nor alcohol Exposed
MEST −0.033 0.828 0.317 0.030 0.121 0.525 0.022 0.886 0.051 0.735 0.025 0.867
P16 −0.024 0.872 0.020 0.894 −0.119 0.524 0.211 0.154 −0.181 0.223 −0.006 0.970
H19 −0.276 0.061 −0.147 0.323 −0.373 0.039 0.263 0.078 0.177 0.240 0.027 0.857
LINE1 −0.101 0.496 −0.224 0.125 −0.171 0.357 0.071 0.635 −0.059 0.695 −0.040 0.789
GNAS −0.171 0.246 −0.248 0.090 −0.199 0.283 0.081 0.586 0.120 0.420 0.072 0.628
Alcohol exposed only
MEST 0.082 0.763 −0.522 0.038 0.024 0.955 −0.143 0.626 0.262 0.366 −0.389 0.169
P16 −0.114 0.674 −0.291 0.274 0.582 0.130 0.026 0.930 0.333 0.245 0.019 0.949
H19 −0.284 0.286 −0.350 0.184 0.306 0.461 −0.266 0.359 0.207 0.478 −0.089 0.761
LINE1 0.169 0.531 0.016 0.953 0.518 0.188 −0.082 0.780 0.113 0.701 −0.448 0.108
GNAS −0.054 0.843 −0.557 0.025 −0.005 0.986 −0.207 0.478 0.176 0.547 0.044 0.881
Nicotine exposed only
MEST 0.041 0.884 −0.474 0.075 −0.333 0.347 0.088 0.745 −0.044 0.871 −0.362 0.169
P16 −0.354 0.196 −0.104 0.712 0.034 0.925 −0.108 0.692 −0.327 0.216 0.219 0.415
H19 −0.134 0.633 −0.427 0.113 0.604 0.064 −0.076 0.778 −0.071 0.795 −0.062 0.820
LINE1 0.056 0.849 0.041 0.890 −0.240 0.534 0.046 0.869 0.175 0.532 −0.122 0.664
GNAS 0.382 0.160 0.062 0.825 −0.544 0.104 0.209 0.438 0.482 0.058 −0.358 0.173
Both nicotine and alcohol exposed
MEST −0.062 0.648 −0.196 0.144 −0.023 0.889 0.241 0.082 0.344 0.012 0.016 0.910
P16 0.064 0.631 0.072 0.589 −0.050 0.761 0.097 0.481 0.019 0.892 −0.074 0.593
H19 −0.140 0.295 −0.103 0.441 −0.065 0.685 −0.059 0.673 0.024 0.864 0.184 0.186
LINE1 −0.037 0.780 −0.077 0.561 −0.067 0.676 0.436 0.001 0.173 0.206 0.168 0.221
GNAS −0.187 0.159 −0.218 0.101 −0.087 0.593 0.194 0.156 0.365 0.006 0.066 0.630

The bold represent p<0.05.