TABLE 7.

ANALYSIS INVESTIGATING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EXON LOCATION OF THE BHD MUTATION AND TOTAL NUMBER OF CYSTS, LARGEST CYST VOLUME, AND DIAMETER

Variable	Exon	n	Mean	SEM	Med.	Min.	Max.	p Value
Total no. of cysts	5	7	4	1.6	2	0	12
	6	6	18	5.8	19	2	38
	7	11	8.7	2.6	6	0	30
	9	17	34.2	7.2	32	4	135	0.0002 (K-W)
	11	75	12.8	1.8	7	0	66
	12	9	13.7	4.7	9	0	45
	13	2	34		34	31	37
	14	2	1.5		1.5	1	2.0
Diameter of largest cysts, cm	5	6	0.8	0.1	0.7	0.6	1.2
	6	6	2.4	1.0	1.6	0.9	7.1
	7	10	1.2	0.2	1.1	0.5	2.1
	9	17	2.6	0.4	1.9	0.8	5.8	0.005 (K-W)
	11	68	1.7	0.1	1.3	0.3	6.4
	12	8	3.5	1.0	2.6	0.6	8.0
	13	2	1.7		1.7	1.6	1.8
	14	2	1.0		1.0	1	1.1
Volume of largest cysts, cm3	5	6	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.6
	6	6	31.5	30.1	0.7	0.4	182.2
	7	10	0.7	0.3	0.4	0.02	2.5
	9	17	10.4	4.6	2.7	0.04	72.9	0.01 (K-W)
	11	68	2.7	0.7	0.6	0.01	29.5
	12	8	14.0	7.0	2.7	0.03	52.8
	13	2	1.7		1.7	1.6	1.8
	14	2	0.35		0.35	0.34	0.37

Definition of abbreviation: K-W = Kruskal-Wallis test; n = number of patients.

^*Volume units.