Genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation in buccal cells: a study of monozygotic twins and mQTLs

Table 1 Correlations between samples based on genome-wide DNA methylation profiles

Comparison	Pearson r			Spearman rho			Pearson r, standardized beta-values
Comparison	Mean	Min	Max	Mean	Min	Max	Mean	Min	Max
Replicates on EPIC (2 pairs)	0.9970	0.9964	0.9976	0.9922	0.9917	0.9927	0.3972	0.3004	0.4941
Matched samples on EPIC and HM450 (10 pairs)	0.9942	0.9923	0.9954	0.9790	0.9768	0.9806	0.3064	0.0931	0.4372
MZ twins on EPIC (49 pairs)	0.9932	0.9797	0.9979	0.9884	0.9758	0.9938	0.3113	− 0.0786	0.7288
Unrelated pairs of samples on EPIC (1176 pairs)	0.9858	0.9451	0.9945	0.9810	0.9522	0.9902	− 0.0109	− 0.5118	0.4765

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