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Table 1 Average levels of DNA methylation on the paternal and maternal Dlk1 -DMR alleles during development

From: Analysis of DNA methylation acquisition at the imprinted Dlk1 locus reveals asymmetry at CpG dyads

Genomic DNA sample

% methylation, paternal alleles

% methylation, maternal alleles

B6xCAST adult sperm

12%

9%

3.5 d.p.c. B6xCAST12 embryo

4%

0.5%

6.5 d.p.c. B6xCAST12 embryo

36%

14%

7.5 d.p.c. B6xCAST12 embryo

35%

10%

8.5 d.p.c. B6xCAST12 embryo

22%

5%

9.5 d.p.c. B6xCAST12 embryo

37%

10%

14.5 d.p.c. B6xCAST12 embryo

27%

5%

14.5 d.p.c. CAST12xB6 embryo

21%

3%

17.5 d.p.c. CAST12xB6 liver

74%

18%

5 d.p.p. B6xCAST12 liver

46%

11%

5 d.p.p. CAST12xB6 liver

62%

24%

6 d.p.p. B6xCAST12 lung

45%

8%

5 d.p.p. CAST12xB6 lung

44%

14%

Adult B6xCAST12 liver

74%

57%

Adult CAST12xB6 liver

58%

41%

Adult B6xCAST12 lung

18%

6%

Adult CAST12xB6 lung

53%

32%

  1. Medians and IQ ranges for each of the average levels of DNA methylation are presented in Additional file 2. In addition, a Kruskal-Wallis test was used to assess overall variation among paternal alleles and among maternal alleles. Significant variation was observed among both the paternal alleles (P = 8.335e-13) and the maternal alleles (P = 1.844e-12).