The six CpG sites from our COAD prognostic model were found to correspond to BDH1 (cg00177496), SYTL1 (cg01963906), SATB2 (cg05165940), WDR20 (cg12921795), DMC1 (cg19414598) and ZNF35 (cg25783173) (Figure 5A and Supplementary Table 4). Here, DMC1 is linked to colon adenocarcinoma.