“…In total, we found 49,252 CpG sites with a cross-sex mQTL and 2,489 CpG sites with a sex-dependent mQTL. These significant cross-sex mQTL were highly replicated in a recently released database of mQTL identified in 368 fetal placentas, 35 having a π 1 = 0.987 and a Spearman correlation of ρ = 0.971.…”