Table 5. Correlation between pulmonary function expressed by forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV₁) and ASC/TMS1/PYCARD and MYD88 methylation levels.

CpG site	Tissue type	ASC/TMS1/PYCARD			MYD88
		ρ*	P value		ρ*	P value
CpG1	H	0.03	0.872		−0.28	0.094
	T	0.13	0.507		0.36	0.030
CpG2	H	−0.20	0.302		−0.21	0.219
	T	0.22	0.246		0.49	0.002
CpG3	H	−0.29	0.131		0.09	0.590
	T	0.12	0.551		0.10	0.571
CpG4	H	−0.21	0.265		−0.17	0.316
	T	0.00	0.988		0.10	0.557
CpG5	H	0.17	0.379		−0.02	0.933
	T	0.24	0.212		0.27	0.113
CpG6	H	−0.17	0.367		−0.14	0.417
	T	−0.01	0.962		−0.05	0.756
CpG7	H	0.00	0.988		−0.09	0.608
	T	0.16	0.395		−0.08	0.648
CpG8	H	−0.32	0.090		−0.11	0.514
	T	0.12	0.538		−0.08	0.650
CpG9	H	−0.40	0.032		0.05	0.776
	T	0.07	0.720		−0.14	0.402
CpG10	H	0.35	0.064		0.07	0.673
	T	0.08	0.679		−0.08	0.646
CpG11	H	0.06	0.767		–	–
	T	−0.15	0.432		–	–
Average	H	−0.11	0.571		−0.23	0.176
	T	0.00	0.988		0.34	0.044

*, statistically significant Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients (ρ) with P values <0.05 are in italic. H stands for non-tumor tissues and T for tumor tissues.