Table 4.

Gene expression average fold-change in the whole-blood mRNA relative to total kidney lysate (input)

Gene	Expression	Fold-change ± SEM	Range	P value
Cdh5	Endothelial	0.08 ± 0.01	0.074-0.095	<7.4 × 10−5
Tek	Endothelial	0.002 ± 0.001	0.007-0.010	<2.1 × 10−5
Vcam1	Endothelial	0.003 ± 0.004	0.001-0.009	<3.2 × 10−3
Vwf	Endothelial/megakaryocyte	248.92 ± 15.56	233.2-264.9	<3.3 × 10−9
F5	Hepatic/megakaryocyte	73.41 ± 3.15	70.3-76.6	<1.5 × 10−5
F8	?	0.02 ± 0.01	0.011-0.029	<1.5 × 10−4

To evaluate the potential contribution of blood contamination to transcript levels of endothelial-specific genes, the tissue lysates of kidney samples were set as a reference and the ΔCt values of individual blood samples (n = 4) were related to the mean ΔCt of the reference group.