Table 3.

Statistical analysis results for skin biopsies. Spearman’s ranked correlation coefficient with respective p-values are presented for ANA titres, disease duration, LoSSI and age

HERV sequence		E pol	W env	R pol-env	H env 62	K env	K10 gag
ANA titre	rs	–0.25	–0.21	–0.16	–0.03	–0.14	0.08
	P-value	0.13	0.22	0.35	0.87	0.43	0.63
Disease duration	rs	0.10	0.20	0.07	0.03	0.10	–0.04
	P-value	0.55	0.23	0.70	0.85	0.57	0.82
LoSSI	rs	0.07	–0.15	–0.08	–0.01	–0.05	–0.10
	P-value	0.70	0.40	0.66	0.95	0.79	0.60
Age	rs	0.17	0.21	0.11	0.31	0.25	0.23
	P-value	0.33	0.23	0.52	0.06*	0.15	0.17
Sex	P-value	0.82	0.27	0.90	0.21	0.50	0.55
Disease activity	P-value	0.99	0.37	0.45	0.99	0.29	0.72

P-values of U tests are presented for sex and disease activity.

^*An instance close to statistical significance is marked.