Consistent with this observation, data from the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation27 array showed that female X-linked promoters had no differences in methylation between highly and lowly expressed genes at any CpG density while males showed a slight significance at X-linked IC promoters.
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Chromosome-wide DNA methylation analysis predicts human tissue-specific X inactivation.
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By examining all known X-linked promoters we were able to show that sex-specific methylation differences were highly significant at X-linked HC promoters, slightly significant at X-linked IC promoters but not significant at X-linked LC promoters or on the autosomes.