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. 2014 Jan 7;9(1):e81913. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081913

Table 3. RGYW/WRCY motifs and targeted mutation frequencies in CDR and FR regions.

Control Aviremic Viremic p value
Number of RGYW/WRCY motifs per VH segment 17.8 (11–23) 18.3 (13–23) 17.8 (13–24) 0.11
% of CDR nucleotides mutated 13.5 (7.4–15.2) 12.4 (10.2–14.1) 9.8 (4.9–14.4) 0.04a
% of CDR mutations present in RGYW/WRCY motifs 58.8 (48.5–62.5) 61.1 (56.8–71.0) 59.4 (53.5–69.2) 0.32
% of FR nucleotides mutated 5.2 (4.0–6.5) 4.8 (4.2–5.7) 4.1 (2.4–7.8) 0.18
% of FR mutations present in RGYW/WRCY motifs 29.3 (19.6–33.5) 30.1 (27.3–33.0) 28.7 (24.4–35.2) 0.55
% of all nucleotides mutated 7.2 (6.0–8.4) 6.5 (5.6–7.6) 5.3 (3.1–9.3) 0.14
% of all mutations present in RGYW/WRCY motifs 41.2 (31.9–46.3) 43.3 (39.9–48.6) 41.4 (37.1–45.6) 0.29

Group medians are listed with the range of individual means in each group in parentheses. Overall p values are listed on the table.

a Secondary analyses: control vs. viremic p<0.05; all other comparisons p>0.05.