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. 2009 Oct 6;4(10):e7359. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007359

Table 3. Spearman's coefficients of the ten strongest (absolute) pair-wise correlations between immunological responses for each day of analysis.

Day 31 Correlation Pair Day37 Correlation Pair Day52 Correlation Pair Day59 Correlation Pair
0.67 CD4, CD25 0.51 IL12, TNFα b−0.50 IL10, CD4 0.51 CD4, Neutr
0.67 IL10, TNFα 0.53 IL10, IL12 0.54 Lymph, CD25 −0.51 FAS, CD25
0.67 IFNγ, CD8 0.65 FAS, IFNγ 0.54 Lymph, CD8 0.52 Lymph, Neutr
0.68 FAS, IFNγ a 0.71 IL10, TNFα 0.55 IL4, IL12 0.52 Lymph, CD8
0.68 Lymph, CD4 0.86 Lymph, CD8 −0.61 IL10, Lymph −0.55 IFNγ, CD25
0.71 Lymph, CD25 0.88 CD8, CD25 0.61 FAS, IFNγ −0.60 FAS, Neutr
0.78 CD8, CD25 0.89 Lymph, CD4 0.64 CD4, CD25 0.61 CD4, CD8
0.79 Lymph, CD8 0.90 CD4, CD25 0.68 CD8, CD25 −0.66 IFNγ, Neutr
0.80 IFNγ, TNFα 0.92 Lymph, CD25 0.72 Lymph, CD4 0.84 Lymph, CD4
0.89 CD4, CD8 0.97 CD4, CD8 0.79 CD4, CD8 0.88 FAS, IFNγ
a

Pair-wise correlations that increase are bolded.

b

The sign indicates whether a pair co-varies positively or negatively.

c

All coefficients are statistically significant (p-values substantially smaller than 0.05) using a test for association/correlation between paired sample.