Table 2 Comparison of telomere length in the patient’s blood (1500-Bl) and cells in the pleural fluid (1500-T).

From: HHV-8-unrelated primary effusion-like lymphoma associated with clonal loss of inherited chromosomally-integrated human herpesvirus-6A from the telomere of chromosome 19q

Telomere

ciHHV-6 (DR1R)a

12qa

17pa

XpYpa

Sample

Length

Range

Length

Range

Length

Range

Length

Range

1500-Bl

3158

2464–4220

4008

3102–5588

3560

2922–4410

5362

4119–6398

1500-T

3115

1766–4224

5987

2246–16103

6278

2949–16544

8337

3713–14826

p valueb

0.8694ns

–

0.0002***

–

0.01**

–

<0.0001****

–

  1. aMedian telomere length and inter-quartile range (bp).
  2. bThe telomere length distributions in DNA from blood and cells in the pleural fluid were compared using a non-parametric Kolmogorov-Smirnov test; p values: ns not significant; *0.01 to 0.05 significant; **0.001 to 0.01 very significant; ***0.0001 to 0.001 and ****<0.0001 extremely significant.
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