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Violation of Independence test for differential methylation (DM)

People say that the assumption of indenpendence is violated if using contengency table for differential methylation. How exactly does indenpendence is violated? Can anyone explain that a little bit? Thanks in advance

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Hi, it always depend how do you create the contingency table, but I think the idea is that neighbooring CpG positions have correlated methylation levels and simply summing them up (or testing them one by one and then applying a simple FDR correction) is not taking this dependency into account.

Thanks for explaining. But when a single CpG site was tested, the contingency table sums up the (normalized) methylation counts of this CpG site from each sample (patient). I thought the independence we are looking for is the methylation level of this site between different samples, right?

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