TABLE 4.

Pearson correlation matrix for the antigenicities of the 19 V3 sequences

Peptide	ra for SSEIAphen peptide
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
SSEIAphen
1	1
2	0.87a	1
3	0.75	0.79	1
4	−0.45	−0.36	−0.23	1
5	0.89	0.96	0.79	−0.36	1
6	0.89	0.88	0.74	−0.42	0.90	1
7	−0.55	−0.58	−0.46	0.70	−0.55	−0.49	1
8	0.14	0.10	0.01	0.02	0.08	0.15	−0.03	1
9	−0.37	−0.44	−0.41	−0.03	−0.42	−0.34	0.09	0.01	1
10	0.24	0.15	0.21	−0.09	0.18	0.22	−0.06	0.45	0.09	1
11	−0.16	−0.24	−0.13	0.14	−0.21	−0.15	0.29	0.16	0.41	0.42	1
12	−0.30	−0.32	−0.23	0.30	−0.30	−0.27	−0.41	0.15	0.34	0.19	0.77	1
13	−0.29	−0.33	−0.22	0.30	−0.31	−0.26	0.35	0.03	0.34	0.18	0.73	0.73	1
14	−0.16	−0.14	−0.16	0.19	−0.15	−0.10	0.28	0.17	0.36	0.22	0.63	0.70	0.70	1
SSEIAgen
A	0.20	0.20	0.08	−0.11	0.17	0.16	−0.11	−0.08	−0.03	0.00	−0.11	−0.11	−0.01	0.04
B	0.85	0.79	0.69	−0.58	0.81	0.81	−0.62	0.06	−0.39	0.19	−0.25	−0.35	−0.34	−0.29
C	−0.35	−0.19	−0.07	0.66	−0.21	−0.28	0.47	0.07	−0.32	−0.13	0.05	0.10	0.11	0.08
D	0.02	−0.04	−0.11	−0.50	−0.03	0.10	−0.28	−0.01	0.67	0.02	0.16	0.09	0.08	0.16
E	−0.33	−0.31	−0.23	0.38	−0.33	−0.21	0.67	0.09	−0.04	−0.03	0.21	0.28	0.27	0.28

^aCorrelations in bold were significant (P < 0.05) after Bonferroni correction.