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Table 3 X and Y chromosome coverage of common resources indexing non-specific probes, and polymorphic probes

From: Who’s afraid of the X? Incorporating the X and Y chromosomes into the analysis of DNA methylation array data

Annotation

Citation

Definition of non-specificity

X

Y

450K array non-specific probe annotations

 Zhou et al. 2017

[36]

High-quality sequence match to intended target (based on internal score), with unique 30 nucleotide 3ʹ subsequence (MASK.mapping & MASK.sub30.copy)

1267

174

 Price et al. 2013

[37]

 > 40 nucleotide match with  > 90% identity and no gaps, must match at position 50

1202

146

 Chen et al. 2013

[38]

 ≥ 47 nucleotide match with no gaps and a match at position 50, only best match retained

819

116

EPIC array non-specific probe annotations

 Zhou et al. 2017

[36]

High-quality sequence match to intended target (based on internal score), with unique 30 nucleotide 3ʹ subsequence (MASK.mapping & MASK.sub30.copy)

2018

217

 Pidsley et al. 2016

[8]

 ≥ 47 nucleotide homology with at least one off-target locus

962

221

Annotation

Citation

SNP reference

Definition of polymorphic

X

Y

450K array polymorphic probe annotations

 Zhou et al. 2017

[36]

dbSNPv147 + 1KGP.phase3

MAF > 0.01 within last 5 nucleotides of probe including CpG or SBE, or SNPs that cause a color switch for Type I probes. (MASK.extbase, MASK.typeINextBaseSwitch, & MASK. snp5.GMAF1p)

145

2

 Illumina

[84]

dbSNPv147

Polymorphism at CpG or SBE (MAF > 0.01)

181

0

 Illumina

[84]

dbSNPv132

Polymorphism at CpG or SBE (MAF > 0.01)

48

0

 Price et al. 2013

[37]

dbSNPv131

Polymorphism at CpG (any MAF, heterozygosity > 0.1 greater effect)

164

9

 Chen et al. 2013

[38]

1KGP.phase1

Polymorphism at CpG (any MAF)

0

0

EPIC array polymorphic probe annotations

 Zhou et al. 2017

[36]

dbSNPv147 + 1KGP.phase3

MAF > 0.01 within last 5 nucleotides of probe including CpG or SBE, or SNPs that cause a color switch for Type I probes. (MASK.extbase, MASK.typeINextBaseSwitch, & MASK. snp5.GMAF1p)

253

7

 Illumina

[84]

dbSNPv147

Polymorphism at CpG or SBE (MAF > 0.01)

166

0

 Illumina

[84]

dbSNPv132

Polymorphism at CpG or SBE (MAF > 0.01)

45

0

  1. SBE indicates single base extension site