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.