Table 4.

Post hoc analysis of interactions between sports subjects/control and DAT1 PAX5 CpG sites 3, 13, 22, 33 and NEO FFI scale.

DAT1 PAX5 CpG Sites 3 Openness Scale
	{1} M = 5.27	{2} M = 4.20	{3} M = 4.62	{4} M = 4.87
Sport; methylation status no {1}		0.0082 *	0.2596	0.2796
Sport; methylation status yes {2}			0.4111	0.0026*
Control; methylation status no {3}				0.5922
Control; methylation status yes {4}
DAT1 PAX5 CpG sites 13 Neuroticism scale
	{1} M = 4.53	{2} M = 5.36	{3} M = 4.74	{4} M = 3.36
Sport; methylation status no {1}		0.07151	0.4520	0.0817
Sport; methylation status yes {2}			0.1344	0.0069 *
Control; methylation status no {3}				0.0314 *
Control; methylation status yes {4}
DAT1 PAX5 CpG sites 22 Neuroticism scale
	{1} M = 2.40	{2} M = 4.88	{3} M = 5.25	{4} M = 4.64
Sport; methylation status no {1}		0.0090 *	0.0098 *	0.0166 *
Sport; methylation status yes {2}			0.5625	0.3393
Control; methylation status no {3}				0.3206
Control; methylation status yes {4}
DAT1 PAX5 CpG sites 22 Extraversion scale
	{1} M = 9.20	{2} M = 6.12	{3} M = 5.58	{4} M = 6.45
Sport; methylation status no {1}		0.0005 *	0.0004 *	0.0016 *
Sport; methylation status yes {2}			0.3642	0.1590
Control; methylation status no {3}				0.1288
Control; methylation status yes {4}
DAT1 PAX5 CpG sites 22 Openness scale
	{1} M = 7.80	{2} M = 4.26	{3} M = 4.92	{4} M = 4.85
Sport; methylation status no {1}		0.0000 *	0.0010 *	0.0001 *
Sport; methylation status yes {2}			0.1911	0.0033 *
Control; methylation status no {3}				0.8946
Control; methylation status yes {4}
DAT1 PAX5CpG sites 22 Agreeability scale
	{1} M = 8.40	{2} M = 5.06	{3} M = 6.25	{4} M = 5.60
Sport; methylation status no {1}		0.0004	0.0494 *	0.0027 *
Sport; methylation status yes {2}			0.0594	0.0322 *
Control; methylation status no {3}				0.2869
Control; methylation status yes {4}

*—significant statistical differences, M—mean.