Tissue-specific variation in DNA methylation levels along human chromosome 1

Table 1 Pearson correlation coefficients, R².

	n	median	min	max		n	median	min	max
Same tissue, Same individual					Same tissue, Different individual
*All, except lung*	42	*0.88*	*0.61*	*0.95*	*All, except T & O*	54	*0.66*	*0.30*	*0.86*
cerebellum	6	0.93	0.86	0.95	cerebellum	9	0.84	0.82	0.86
pons	6	0.92	0.89	0.93	pons	9	0.67	0.64	0.71
medulla	6	0.92	0.90	0.94	medulla	9	0.66	0.62	0.68
occipital	6	0.87	0.61	0.89	occipital	9	0.66	0.52	0.70
liver	6	0.85	0.68	0.88	liver	9	0.54	0.30	0.70
heart	6	0.77	0.74	0.79	heart	9	0.51	0.39	0.56
testis	3	0.84	0.83	0.85
ovary	3	0.90	0.87	0.91	testis vs ovary	9	0.19	0.14	0.26
lung, male	3	0.31	0.22	0.59
Different tissue, Same individual
**All, except lung***	*108*	*0.10*	*0.00*	*0.44*	*only cerebellum represented from brain
heart vs. ovary	9	0.40	0.38	0.44
heart vs. testis	9	0.23	0.20	0.29
heart vs. cerebellum	18	0.10	0.08	0.14
heart vs. liver	18	0.06	0.01	0.19
liver vs. ovary	9	0.02	0.00	0.07
liver vs. testis	9	0.09	0.05	0.13
liver vs. cerebellum	18	0.03	0.00	0.05
cerebellum vs. ovary	9	0.11	0.09	0.14
cerebellum vs. testis	9	0.16	0.13	0.18
*All four brain parts*	*108*	*0.45*	*0.27*	*0.93*

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