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. 2020 Aug 4;9(8):845–857. doi: 10.1530/EC-20-0286

Table 2.

Association between EDCs and single CpGs under different analytical conditions.

Input values/correction/transformation Raw/No/No Raw/No/Log Raw/SVA/No Raw/SVA/Log Quartiles/SVA/No
TCS (triclosan)
 Genomic inflation factor 1.40 1.56 1.24 1.31 1.05
 CpGs at FDR < 0.05 327a 1156a 521a 898a 0
BPA (bisphenol A)
 Genomic inflation factor 1.77 1.38 1.35 1.09 1.01
 CpGs at FDR < 0.05 3383a 227a 757a 210a 0
BP-3 (benzophenone-3)
 Genomic inflation factor 0.77 0.77 1.15 1.13 1.09
 CpGs at FDR < 0.05 19a 13a 147a 95a 0
2,4-DCP (2,4-dichlorophenol)
 Genomic inflation factor 1.06 1.21 1.14 1.18 1.06
 CpGs at FDR < 0.05 101a 305a 198a 263a 0
Σphth.m (11 phthalate metabolites)b
 Genomic inflation factor 0.89 0.91 1.12 1.11 1.10
 CpGs at FDR<0.05 0 0 2 3 0

aDriven by single point measurements (Supplementary File 1); bSee ‘Methods’ section for explanation on which phthalate measurements that are included.

CpG, DNA methylation loci; FDR, false discovery rate; SVA, surrogate variable analysis .