nominally significantp < 0.05
A strong correlation (|r|≥ 0.80) between the gene expression and DNA methylation profiles was observed at 27% of loci (166 CpGs in 153 genes) in HCT116 cells, out of them, 47 CpGs corresponding to 44 genes were nominally significant ( p < 0.05) ( Supplementary Table 3 ) indicating that observed hypermethylations affect cellular function by altering gene expression in cancer cell lines.