Percentage of each methylated CpG pattern in NS and CS.

<p>^mC represents the overall methylation level of the amplified LINE-1s. ^mC^mC and ^uC^uC represent hypermethylated and hypomethylated CpG of the amplified region, respectively. ^mC^uC and ^uC^mC represent two forms of partial methylation. ^mC^uC+^uC^mC is the sum of partially methylated loci of both forms. The horizontal line within each box indicates the mean of the percentage. Stars indicate statistical significance at <i>p</i><0.05. The results demonstrated that the CS had a significantly higher %^mC^mC and %^uC^uC and a lower %^mC^uC and %^mC^uC+%^uC^mC than the NS.