Cytoadherence phenotype of Plasmodium falciparum- infected erythrocytes is associated with specific pfemp-1 expression in parasites from children with cerebral malaria

Table 3 Transcript abundances of var genes from groups A, B, var2csa , var3 , DC8 and DC13

Primers ID	T_u_CM median [IQR]	T_u_UM median [IQR]	P-value
A1 (n = xx)	1.4 [1-6.8]	1 [0-1.7]	0.01
A2 (n = xx)	1.2 [1-5.3]	1 [1-6.3]	0.8
A3 (n = xx)	19.6 [4.3-33]	6.6 [1-14.3]	0.02
B1 (n = xx)	9.3 [1-64]	1 [1-2.6]	0.001
var2 (n = xx)	1 [1-4.4]	1 [0-1]	0.001
var3 (n = xx)	17.1 [1-34]	1.4 [1-10.4]	0.008
CIDRα1.1 (DC8) (n = xx)	2.11 [1-11.8]	1 [1-2.3]	0.02
DBLβ12 (DC8) (n = xx)	2.8 [1-13.9]	1 [1-4.2]	0.03
DBLγ4/6 (DC8) (n = xx)	1 [0-1]	1 [0-1]	0.4
DBLαCIDRα (DC8) (n = xx)	0 [0-1]	0 [0-1 ]	0.4
DBLα1.7 (DC13) (n = xx)	1.1 [1-8.1]	1 [ 0-1.5]	0.01
CIDRα1.4 (DC13) (n = xx)	1 [1-2.2]	1 [ 0-1]	0.002

Comparisons between P. falciparum isolates from children presenting with cerebral (CM) and uncomplicated malaria (UM) were achieved by the Mann-Whitney U test.

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