Table 3.

Geometric mean percentage of P. falciparum reactive IgG subclasses among the total IgG subclass concentration.

	Specific IgG subclasses/total IgG subclasses (%)
	IgG1	IgG2	IgG3	IgG4
Dogon	2.4 ± 1.2	1.8 ± 1.5	1.8 ± 1.3	0.7 ± 1.5
Fulani	3.2 ± 1.2	2.6 ± 1.4	2.4 ± 1.7	0.8 ± 1.4
p-valuea	< 0.0001	0.0005	< 0.0001	0.11

Data are presented as geometric mean percentages (the mean percentages of the logged values) ± SD.

^a Statistical analysis of differences between the two ethnic groups for each IgG subclass tested with t-test.