Systematic identification of genetic influences on methylation across the human life course

Table 1 Number of mQTL and associated CpGs reaching the significance threshold for each time point

Counts	Birth	Childhood	Adolescence	Pregnancy	Middle age
Sentinel mQTL
Cis ^a	24,262	31,729	30,294	29,038	27,043
Trans ^b	1979	2658	2442	2394	2144
Conditionally independent^c	2705	5446	5040	4454	3463
Total mQTL	28,946	39,833	37,776	35,886	32,650
Total unique CpGs	27,387	36,705	34,886	33,344	30,676

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