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Table 2 The arrangement of all possible events explaining the sixteen four-bit binary MSAP codes

From: A relative quantitative Methylation-Sensitive Amplified Polymorphism (MSAP) method for the analysis of abiotic stress

Code

Demethylation (DM)

De novo methylation

(DNM)

Methylation State Preservation

(MSP)

Non-methylation State Preservation

(NMSP)

Methylation (M = DNM + MSP)

Non-methylation (NM = DM + NMSP)

De novo methylation of CHG type

(DNM-CHG)

De novo methylation of CG type

(DNM-CG)

Demethylation of CHG type (DM-CHG)

Demethylation of CG type

(DM-CG)

0000

2

2

10

2

12

4

0

2

0

2

0001

9

3

3

1

6

10

0

3

8

1

0010

4

0

2

2

2

6

0

0

2

2

0011

6

0

0

2

0

8

0

0

4

2

0100

3

9

3

1

12

4

8

1

0

3

0101

1

1

5

9

6

10

0

1

0

1

0110

3

2

0

3

2

6

3

0

0

3

0111

3

0

0

5

0

8

0

0

0

3

1000

0

4

2

2

6

2

1

2

0

0

1001

2

3

0

3

3

6

2

3

2

0

1010

0

0

1

3

0

3

0

0

0

0

1011

1

0

0

3

0

4

0

0

1

0

1100

0

6

0

2

6

2

4

2

0

0

1101

0

3

0

5

3

5

0

3

0

0

1110

0

1

0

3

1

3

1

0

0

0

1111

0

0

0

4

0

4

0

0

0

0