Table 4. Tau-b coefficients and significance of associations between histological scores and gene expression analysis for all transected tendons.

Gene	Sum of Scores	P	Cellularity	P	Cell Morphology	P	Cell Infiltration	P	Alignment	P
COL3A1	0.239	0.0001	0.227	0.003	0.254	0.0001	0.265	0.001	0.223	0.001
MMP13	0.212	0.001	0.241	0.0001	0.193	0.007	0.234	0.001	0.152	0.021

Significance was set at P≤0.001after Benjamini-Hochberg correction. Significant correlations are indicated by the grey boxes.