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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 2.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2008 Jul 1;69(1):153–158. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.03148.x

Table 4.

Correlation between sizes of organs and height; sizes of organs and body surface area (BSA) of all the subjects (pooled GHRH-R mutant and control subjects)

Height Weight BSA
Liver right lobe r = 0·417 r = 0·625 r = 0·607
P = 0·011 P < 0·0001 P < 0·0001
Liver left lobe r = 0·398 r = 0·343 r = 0·374
P = 0·016 P = 0·04 P = 0·025
Head of pancreas r = 0·04 r = 0·026 r = -0·004
P = 0·849 P = 0·9 P = 0·987
Body of pancreas r = -0·131 r = 0·029 r = -0·007
P = 0·533 P = 0·891 P = 0·974
Tail of pancreas r = -0·146 r = 0·055 r = 0·034
P = 0·486 P = 0·795 P = 0·874
Spleen r = 0·411 r = 0·217 r = 0·178
P = 0·013 P = 0·203 P = 0·299
Longitudinal kidney r = 0·813 r = 0·758 r = 0·786
P < 0·0001 P < 0·0001 P < 0·0001
Transversal kidney r = 0·807 r = 0·695 r = 0·735
P < 0·0001 P < 0·0001 P < 0·0001
Prostate r = 0·502 r = 0·686 r = 0·651
P = 0·040 P = 0·002 P = 0·005
Uterus r = 0·593 r = 0·389 r = 0·387
P = 0·002 P = 0·054 P = 0·056
Ovary r = 0·175 r = 0·072 r = 0·072
P = 0·503 P = 0·782 P = 0·783

Values are means ± SD. Significant correlations are in bold characters.