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. 2021 Sep 6;12:5285. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25521-7

Fig. 3. Tumor repressors can be repressed by methylation concurrence elevation rather than hypermethylation in uterus tumor.

Fig. 3

a Venn diagram shows the overlap between promoter methylation concurrence altered genes and average methylation altered genes in TCGA uterus tumor (UCEC). P1, methylation concurrence elevated but average methylation stable genes; P2, hypermethylated but concurrence-stable genes; P3, concurrence-elevated and hypermethylated genes. b Average profiles of methylation concurrence (upper panel) and average methylation (lower panel) in TSS regions of P1, P2, and P3 genes. UCEC normal is in blue, and UCEC tumor is in red. c Gene expression change of P1, P2, P3, and 1000 randomly selected genes. The fold changes between median values (log2 scale) are indicated below. The two-tailed Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used for the significance test. The line in the box center refers to the median, the limits of box refer to the 25th and 75th percentiles and whiskers are plotted at the highest and lowest points within the 1.5 times interquartile range. The lists of repressed genes in three groups are in Supplementary Data 2. d COSMIC tumor suppressor genes which are overlapped with P1, P2, and P3 genes. Gene expression fold changes (log2 scale) are indicated. Darker green signifies higher repression in the UCEC tumor sample. e The percentages of tumor suppressors in P1, P2, and P3 genes.