Table 2.
Mean total blood lymphocyte counts in hemochromatosis probands with HFE C282Y homozygosity
| HLA | loge lymphocyte count (cells/mm3 × 10-3 (SD)) | lymphocyte count (cells/mm3 × 10-3 (95% CI))1 | p value (present vs. absent)2 |
| A*01 present | 1.012 (0.213) | 2.8 (1.8, 4.2) | 0.0362 |
| A*01 absent | 1.101 (0.184) | 3.0 (2.1, 4.3) | |
| B*08 present | 0.975 (0.178) | 2.7 (1.9, 3.8) | 0.0048 |
| B*08 absent | 1.104 (0.189) | 3.0 (2.1, 4.4) | |
| B*14 present | 1.160 (0.180) | 3.2 (2.2, 4.5) | 0.0317 |
| B*14 absent | 1.065 (0.192) | 2.9 (2.0, 4.2) | |
| A*01-B*08 present | 0.943 (0.195) | 2.6 (1.8, 3.8) | 0.0026 |
| A*01-B*08 absent | 1.101 (0.185) | 3.0 (2.1, 4.3) |
1Lymphocyte counts were measured at diagnosis of hemochromatosis, and are expressed as mean (95% CI) after computing antilogse of the transformed data.
2Comparisons were made using loge lymphocyte counts and student t-test (two-tail); p values < 0.05 were defined as significant.