Distal CpG islands can serve as alternative promoters to transcribe genes with silenced proximal promoters.

Supplemental Figure 2 shows that the median TSI of expressed methylated-promoter genes is significantly greater compared to that of all genes (10 −4 < Wilcoxon signed-rank test P < 0.05 in 33/34 tissues showing a significant trend).

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