Figure 2
From: Discovery of DNA methylation markers in cervical cancer using relaxation ranking
Step-plot to determine optimal number of probes for further analysis. Step-plot of the number of retrieved known markers (45 published hypermethylation markers in cervical cancer, see Additional file 4) as a function of the position after relaxation ranking (this is the number of selected probes after ranking). The step plot shows the actual (observed) number of markers. If the markers were randomly distributed, one would expect the profile, marked with 'expected' (details in the text). The trend of the observed markers versus the number of selected probes is indicated with dashed lines.