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Figure 1: Single-replicate analysis.
Figure 2: Saturation analysis of deep replicate methylomes.
Figure 3: RRBS spike-in simulation.

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We thank the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge BioResource volunteers for participation, staff for volunteer recruitment, S.A.B. and Management Committee for support and the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre for funding. S.C.H., M.G., I.G.G. and H.G.S. were supported by EU-FP7 project BLUEPRINT (282510). M.J.Z. and A.M. were supported by the US National Institutes of Health Common Fund (U01ES017155). M.F. was supported by the BHF Cambridge Centre of Excellence (RE/13/6/30180). W.H.O. was supported by EU-FP7 project BLUEPRINT (282510), the NIHR, the British Heart Foundation (RP-PG-0310-1002, RG/09/12/28096) and the NHS Blood and Transplant. J.H. was supported by The Monument Trust. E.L. and S.B. were supported by EU-FP7 projects EpiTrain (316758), EpiGeneSys (257082) and BLUEPRINT (282510), the Wellcome Trust (99148) and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (WM100023).

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Libertini, E., Heath, S., Hamoudi, R. et al. Saturation analysis for whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data. Nat Biotechnol 34, 691–693 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3524

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