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. 2010 Apr 20;5(4):e10213. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010213

Figure 5. Diversity and divergence in breast milk and plasma.

Figure 5

(A) Comparing mean diversity of virus in breast milk and plasma HIV-1 RNA gp160 sequences of contemporaneously sampled subjects. Triangles  =  plasma, circles  =  breast milk; star  =  significant difference between plasma and breast milk diversity, p-values from Wilcoxon rank sums test. (B) Comparing diversity in breast milk and plasma in all contemporaneously sampled patients in aggregate, using Gilbert, Rossini, and Shankarappa's method for comparing intra-individual genetic sequence diversity between populations. Black lines are means. (C) Comparison of mean divergence of virus in BM and PL within contemporaneously sampled subjects. P-values from Wilcoxon rank sums test. (D) Comparison of viral divergence between the BM and PL of all contemporaneously sampled subjects in aggregate. P-value obtained using a GEE model. Black lines are means.