Skip to main content

Table 2 Pearson correlation of DNA methylation results (beta-values) between WGBS and HM450K bead array for the H1-hESC cell line, measured for different categories

From: Reducing the risk of false discovery enabling identification of biologically significant genome-wide methylation status using the HumanMethylation450 array

 

Infinium I

Infinium II

Category

Unique probes

Median

Pearson corr.

P-value

Unique probes

Median

Pearson corr.

P-value

High quality

25,199

0.06

0.95

NA

83,565

0.10

0.92

NA

Multimap map

917

0.08

0.93

3.43e-09

2,602

0.11

0.91

3.72e-03

Repeats

1,645

0.13

0.85

6.1e-141

11,026\

0.11

0.79

9.03e-11

Indels

901

0.07

0.94

6.49e-02

2,993

0.10

0.91

8.32e-02

Bis-okay

2,734

0.07

0.95

7.74e-02

11,804

0.10

0.92

8.32e-02

SNP-at-CpG-C

1,074

0.09

0.93

7.07e-18

8,099

0.10

0.83

6.59e-05

SNP-at-CpG-G

1032

0.09

0.91

2.38e-21

7,488

0.10

0.82

2.42e-04

SNP-1

14,155

0.07

0.95

6.33e-12

40,426

0.10

0.91

2.30e-01

SNP > =2

7,067

0.07

0.94

2.36e-27

13,822

0.10

0.90

2.27e-01

  1. Each probe count is the number of probes unique to each category and contains only probes which appear on the array and have a matching WGBS beta value. Category definitions: High-quality - contains probes which are not affected by any genomic factors; Repeats - describes probes which hybridize to repetitive regions; Bis-okay – are probes which hybridize regions containing any C- > T SNP or T- > C SNP and are ‘ okay’ in bisulfite space; SNP-at-CpG-C and SNP-at-CpG-G - are probes which have SNPs at the interrogated C and its neighbouring G position, respectively; Indels - are probes which hybridize regions containing INDELs; Multimap - are probes which hybridize to multiple genomic loci; SNP-1 - are probes which contain only a single SNP anywhere in the body; and SNP > =2 - are probes which contain at least 2 SNPs anywhere in the probe body.The p-values represent the difference in beta-value distribution calculated using the Wilcox-rank sum test [39] and multiple tested corrected using the Benjamini-Hochberg method [40]. The median of the absolute difference between WGBS and HM450K bead array of each set is also shown.