Table 2.
Associations between peptide characteristics and T cell responsiveness.
| T cell response |
Total | Proportion responding | P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | ||||
| Peptide length | |||||
| 8mer | 24 | 1 | 25 | 0.040 | 1.00 |
| 9mer | 742 | 33 | 775 | 0.043 | N/A |
| 10mer | 720 | 18 | 738 | 0.024 | 0.063 |
| 11mer | 408 | 1 | 409 | 0.002 | 0.00001 |
| 12mer | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 1.00 |
| HLA gene | |||||
| HLA-A | 1,440 | 42 | 1,482 | 0.028 | N/A |
| HLA-B | 414 | 9 | 423 | 0.021 | 0.50 |
| HLA-C | 41 | 2 | 43 | 0.047 | 0.35 |
P-values represent a test for difference in proportion responding, between the given row and the corresponding most frequent row (9mers or HLA-A).