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Global methylation correlates with clinical status in multiple sclerosis patients in the first year of IFNbeta treatment.

Sci Rep · 2017 · PMC5562733 · PMID 28821874

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.050actually significant
But when we analyzed the treatment duration, we observed that patients who had been treated for a longer time showed a lower percentage of LINE-1 methylation, although the correlation did not reach statistical significance (Spearman’s Rho = −0.329; p = 0.050) (Fig. 2A ).

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