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. 2023 Feb 13;15:23. doi: 10.1186/s13148-023-01435-7

Table 1.

Genome-wide scan of DNA methylation for an association with fasting glucose concentrations (as a continuous variable)

Chr CpG site§ Position Discovery Validation Meta − analysis CpG context Gene Gene region
Effect†a (95% CI) Effect a (95% CI) p Effect (95% CI) p pQ¥
chr1 cg14476101 120,255,992  − 0.50 (− 0.66, − 0.35)  − 1.08 (− 1.79, − 0.38) 0.003  − 0.53 (− 0.68, − 0.38) 4.37E − 12 0.111 S Shore PHGDH Body
chr1 cg19693031 145,441,552  − 1.11 (− 1.30, − 0.93)  − 1.93 (− 2.55, − 1.30)  < 0.0026  − 1.18 (− 1.36, − 1.00) 1.10E − 38 0.013 OpenSea TXNIP 3'UTR
chr2 cg00765233* 235,877,260  − 1.11 (− 1.49, − 0.74)  − 2.70 (− 5.67, 0.28) 0.075  − 1.14 (− 1.51, − 0.77) 1.92E − 09 0.294 OpenSea SH3BP4 5'UTR
chr4 cg06690548 139,162,808  − 0.50 (− 0.70, − 0.31)  − 0.74 (− 1.70, 0.23) 0.132  − 0.51 (− 0.70, − 0.32) 9.65E − 08 0.638 OpenSea SLC7A11 Body
chr8 cg00345025 743,875  − 0.79 (− 1.09, − 0.49)  − 0.46 (− 1.65, 0.73) 0.444  − 0.77 (− 1.06, − 0.48) 2.35E − 07 0.594 N Shore Intergenic
chr9 cg14148209* 7,543,165  − 1.65 (− 2.16, − 1.13)  − 0.25 (− 3.52, 3.01) 0.877  − 1.61 (− 2.12, − 1.11) 3.93E − 10 0.402 OpenSea Intergenic
chr10 cg01391548* 97,068,696  − 0.70 (− 0.96, − 0.44)  − 0.53 (− 1.28, 0.23) 0.167  − 0.68 (− 0.92, − 0.43) 6.21E − 08 0.675 OpenSea Intergenic
chr10 cg02556345 124,181,965  − 0.88 (− 1.22, − 0.54)  − 0.57 (− 1.89, 0.76) 0.398  − 0.86 (− 1.19, − 0.53) 2.60E − 07 0.648 OpenSea PLEKHA1 Body
chr10 cg08994060 6,214,026  − 0.64 (− 0.88, − 0.39)  − 0.69 (− 1.71, 0.32) 0.179  − 0.64 (− 0.87, − 0.40) 1.02E − 07 0.915 OpenSea PFKFB3 Body
chr10 cg26262157 6,214,079  − 0.68 (− 0.94, − 0.43)  − 0.89 (− 1.85, 0.08) 0.070  − 0.70 (− 0.94, − 0.45) 2.09E − 08 0.685 OpenSea PFKFB3 Body
chr11 cg00574958 68,607,622  − 2.92 (− 3.62, − 2.23)  − 2.26 (− 4.05, − 0.46) 0.014  − 2.83 (− 3.48, − 2.19) 7.60E − 18 0.494 N Shore CPT1A 5'UTR
chr11 cg11588197 128,391,494  − 0.74 (− 1.02, − 0.47) 0.33 (− 0.56, 1.22) 0.462  − 0.65 (− 0.91, − 0.38) 1.34E − 06 0.022 N Shore ETS1 Body
chr11 cg17058475 68,607,737  − 1.44 (− 1.94, − 0.95)  − 1.30 (− 2.63, 0.02) 0.054  − 1.42 (− 1.89, − 0.96) 1.48E − 09 0.845 N Shore CPT1A 5'UTR
chr12 cg10877979 131,569,407  − 1.31 (− 1.77, − 0.85)  − 0.52 (− 3.81, 2.76) 0.753  − 1.29 (− 1.75, − 0.84) 3.03E − 08 0.637 N Shelf GPR133 Body
chr13 cg19750657 38,935,967 0.69 (0.44, 0.94) 0.04 (− 1.17, 1.24) 0.951 0.66 (0.41, 0.91) 1.53E − 07 0.293 OpenSea UFM1 3'UTR
chr20 cg00872151 59,964,387  − 2.36 (− 3.23, − 1.48)  − 0.80 (− 4.86, 3.26) 0.697  − 2.29 (− 3.14, − 1.43) 1.62E − 07 0.456 N Shore CDH4 Body
chr21 cg06500161* 43,656,587 0.83 (0.53, 1.12) 1.69 (0.43, 2.94) 0.009 0.87 (0.59, 1.15) 1.68E − 09 0.184 S Shore ABCG1 Body
chr21 cg08309687** 35,320,596  − 0.52 (− 0.71, − 0.32)  − 1.11 (− 2.12, − 0.10) 0.032  − 0.54 (− 0.73, − 0.35) 3.42E − 08 0.254 OpenSea Intergenic
chr21 cg17648210 46,352,817 1.41 (0.88, 1.93) 1.14 (− 2.45, 4.73) 0.530 1.40 (0.88, 1.92) 1.16E − 07 0.883 Island Intergenic

Chr Chromosome, CI Confidence interval, CpG CpG dinucleotide, Effect Effect size; UTR Untranslated region. Numbers in bold face are statistically significant

§ Annotation used R v.0.6.0.IlluminaHumanMethylation450kanno.ilmn12.hg19: Annotation for Illumina's 450 k methylation arrays

Each effect size of the CpGs in the discovery stage was at the epigenome-wide significance level (p < 1E-007)

a Effect size adjusted by age and leukocyte heterogeneities (CD8+CD28CD45RA T cell, naïve CD8 T cell, plasma blast, CD4+ T cell, natural killer cell, monocyte, and granulocyte)

¥ p value for Cochran’s Q

* Enhancer associated

** Enhancer and promoter associated