Table 2.

tax/β2 and HBZ/ β2 gene expression in ATL and ACs

	Group	Mean	Minimum	Maximum	SEM	SD	P-value
tax	ATL	0.1993	$0.000004$	$2.333$	$0.16499$	0.61737	0.011
	ACs	0.00008	0.000012	0.00023	0.00005	0.00010
HBZ	ATL	0.10176	0.0023	0.8382	0.06131	0.2294	$0.0001$
	ACs	0.00007	0.0000004	0.00018	0.00002	0.00007

ATL: Adult T cell Leukemia; HBZ: HTLV-1 basic leucine zipper factor

1Std. Error of mean

2Std. Deviation

Significant differences in tax and HBZ gene expression were observed between ATL patients and ACs