Figure 4.

Statistically significant changes in genes between the three IS900+ groups. (a) Comparison of paucibacillary and asymptomatic; (b) comparison of multibacillary and asymptomatic; (c) comparison of paucibacillary and multibacillary. Results are given as significant (p ≤ 0.05) fold-changes of mean copy-numbers relative to the mean copy-numbers of the comparative group. IL-3 was not included, as the copy number in the control samples was 0, thus fold change values could not be calculated. The data for TRAF-1, highlighted with * in (c) excludes a single outlier in the ten data points; p = 0.062 with the outlier; p ≤ 0.02 without the outlier.