Figure 4

Confirmation of increased methylation at a NKX2-3 gene CpG island in ovarian tumor by bisulfite sequencing. a) Representation the 5' NKZ2-3 gene region showing the chromosomal location, associated CpG islands, region covered by the clone on the CGI array, region that was bisulfite sequenced, and the NKX2-3 gene itself. For the row labeled NKX2.3, the 5' untranslated region is indicated by the thin bar, the first and second exons are shown as thick bars, and the first intron is indicated by a thin line with overlaid arrow heads. b) Boxplot of the bisulfite sequencing results. The total number of methylated CpG sites in 47 clones from each of ten samples were averaged and plotted. The p-value for significance between the two means is shown (unpaired Welch's t-test).