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Published in final edited form as: J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2019 Dec 23;197:105566. doi: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2019.105566

Table 3:

Correlations between levels of individual oxysterols in plasma of breast cancer patients

Oxysterol^a	25HC	27HC	7αHC	7KC	βEC	CT
25HC	-	- 0.073/0.649	0.192/0.241	0.512/0.001	−0.128/0.438	0.111/0.511
27HC		-	0.743/<0.001	- 0.409/0.002^b	0.609/<0.001	0.505/<0.001
7αHC			-	- 0.053/0.702	0.573/<0.001	0.414/0.003
7KC				-	- 0.275/0.046	0.066/0.646
βEC					-	0.215/0.137
CT						-

Spearman’s correlation coefficient σ and p-value shown. Results confirmed by analysis without outliers are underlined

Correlation between 27HC and 7KC was not significant in analysis without outliers (−0.171/0.268).