... Institute and Organisation for Oncology and Translational Research Hong Kong, China.Authors’ contributionsWTYL participated in the design of the study and carried out samplepreparation and PCR ... University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.2Keenlink Dental Clinic, Hong Kong, China.3State Key Laboratory for OralDiseases and Department of Prosthodontics, West China College ofStomatology, Sichuan ... research has beendone on aberrant CpG hypermethylation in otherchronic inflammatory diseasessuchasgastritisandulcerative colitis but next to none has been done on periodontitis [23,3].Currently,...