Table 1. Spearman's correlation analysis between age or colitis score and fraction or number of the different thymocyte subpopulations.

	Agea		Colitis scoreb
Variable	r s	p	r s	p
% DP	−0.63	1.9•10−4	−0.85	2.7•10−9
% CD4	0.68	3.2•10−5	0.82	4.0•10−8
% CD8	0.58	8.7•10−4	0.77	4.8•10−7
# DP	−0.54	1.9•10−3	−0.72	5.9•10−6
# CD4	−0.17	0.37	−0.11	0.57
# CD8	−0.23	0.21	−0.23	0.31

^aThe different age groups were: 4 (n = 9), 5 (n = 7), 6 (n = 5), 7 (n = 6) and 8 weeks (n = 3).

^bThe different colitis score were: 0p (n = 3), 0.5–2p (n = 3), 2.5–4p (n = 14), 4.5–6p (n = 6) and 6.5–8p (n = 4).