highly significantp ≤ 10 -4
Spearman’s rank correlation identified a highly significant (p ≤ 10 -4 ) positive correlation between methylation values determined by the Illumina Infinium platform and those defined by qMSP, for all of the 4 genes under analysis ( WNT10B , TUB , ALOX12B , SLC6A11 ; Figure 4 ).