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The majority of the altered DNA methylation regions were found in the intergenic regions and introns and not associated with CpG islands, with only a low percentage occurring at promoter or exon regions. Integrated analysis of the DNA methylome and transcriptome identified a number of inversely and positively correlated genes between DNA methylation and gene expression, following the criteria of |log<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>FC| &amp;gt; 0.5, |diffMethy| &amp;gt; 0.1, and <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05. Differential expression and methylation of two significant genes, semaphoring 4D (<jats:italic>SEMA4D<\/jats:italic>) and von Willebrand factor A domain containing 1 (<jats:italic>VWA1<\/jats:italic>), were validated by qRT-PCR and\u00a0bisulfite sequencing. Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analyses demonstrated that DNA methylation inversely correlated genes in <jats:italic>G. parasuis<\/jats:italic> infected porcine brains were mainly involved with cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), bacterial invasion of epithelial cells, RIG-1-like receptor signaling pathways, and hematopoietic cell lineage signaling pathways. In addition, a protein-protein interaction network of differentially methylated genes found potential candidate molecular interactions relevant to the pathology of <jats:italic>G. parasuis<\/jats:italic> infection. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to integrate the DNA methylome and transcriptome data from <jats:italic>G. parasuis<\/jats:italic> infected porcine brains. 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