Table 5.

 Correlation coefficients* between the amplification levels of the cyclin genes in 219 primary human colon adenocarcinomas

	CCNB1	CCNC	CCND1	CCND3	CCNE	CCNH
CCNA	0.481	0.352	−0.127	0.313	0.356	0.381
CCNB1	–	0.319	−0.007	0.386	0.393	0.456
CCNC	–	–	0.032	0.446	0.535	0.237
CCND1	–	–	–	0.012	−0.133	−0.011
CCND3	–	–	–	–	0.348	0.178
CCNE	–	–	–	–	–	0.205

*Kendall’s τ non-parametric correlation. All correlations are significant the <0.01 level, except for CCND1 amplification, which correlated with none of the other cyclins.