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Table 1 Spearman’s correlation between the proportion of each cell type estimated from the methylomic and transcriptomic datasets and Spearman’s correlation between the proportion of each cell type in T0 and T1 for each dataset

From: Reliability and correlation of mixture cell correction in methylomic and transcriptomic blood data

Cell type

Comparison between cell counts obtained from methylomic and transcriptomic dataset (n = 20)

Longitudinal correlation in the methylomic dataset (n = 10)

Longitudinal correlation in the transcriptomic dataset (n = 10)

Coefficient

Significance

Significance after BH correction

Coefficient

Significance

Coefficient

Significance

CD8T

0.45

0.044

0.044

0.79

0.007

0.79

0.006

CD4T

0.81

< 10−4

< 10−4

0.72

0.019

0.81

0.005

NK

0.67

1·10−3

2·10−3

0.55

0.100

0.26

0.467

B cell

0.63

3·10−3

0.005

0.68

0.032

0.52

0.128

Monocytes

0.55

0.012

0.016

0.82

0.004

0.79

0.006

Granulocytes

0.76

0.017

0.019

0.30

0.405

0.21

0.556

Lymphocytes (all)

0.76

< 10−4

3·10−4

0.38

0.276

0.66

0.038

  1. NK natural killer cells, CD8T CD8 T lymphocytes, CD4T CD4 T lymphocytes, B cell B lymphocytes, BH Benjamini–Hochberg