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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 27.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Rev Allergy Immunol. 2008 Jun;34(3):352–355. doi: 10.1007/s12016-007-8044-z

Table 3.

Proportion of maternal (MMc) and fetal (FMc) microchimerism in scleroderma patients.

MMc FMc
Skewed (>80 %) 12 tested 58.3% positive for MMc Skewed (>80 %) 14 tested 57.1% positive for FMc
7 positive 8 positive
5 negative 6 negative
Random (<80 %) 15 tested 66.7% positive for MMc Random (<80 %) 25 tested 56.0% positive for FMc
10 positive 14 positive
5 negative 11 negative