Research Paper Volume 15, Issue 22 pp 12763—12779
Effects of paternal and chronological age on BEGAIN methylation and its possible role in autism
Figure 1. Paternal age effect on BEGAIN promoter methylation in human sperm. Scatter plot showing significant (Pearson’s r = -0.27; p = 0.037) negative correlation between donor age (x-axis in years) and mean methylation of the 9 analyzed CpGs (y-axis in %) in 90 human sperm samples (blue dots).