Table 3.
Somatic hypermutation frequencies and CDR3 lengths are not significantly different between HIV-1 Env-reactive IgG antibodies in blood and colostrum.
Nonreactive | HIV-1 Env-reactive | p-value | ||
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Mean CDR3 length (amino acids) | Blood | 15 | 16 | 0.83 |
Colostrum | 17 | 17 | 0.94 | |
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p-valuea | 0.12 | 0.13 | ||
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Mean mutation frequency (%) | Blood | 6 | 6 | 0.97 |
Colostrum | 6 | 7 | 0.24 | |
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p-value | 0.90 | 0.21 |
Analyses performed using linear mixed model; p > 0.05 is not significant.