To further investigate whether the differences in Raman spectra of the low and high global DNA methylation status are independent of species and cell types, PCA were performed on the whole data sets consisting of the spectra from all, the mESCs (control and 2i mESCs) and human colon cancer (HCT116 WT and DNMT1−/−) cells. The gene discussed is DNMT1; the disease is malignant colon neoplasm.