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Table 2 Demographic characteristics of malaria and control groups

From: Association of apoptosis-related variants to malaria infection and parasite density in individuals from the Brazilian Amazon

    

P-value

Variables

Pfa

Pvb

Mixed infection

CGc

Pf vs CG

Pv vs CG

Mixed infection vs CG

N

42

26

58

101

–

–

–

Aged

31.31 ± 13.22

31.10 ± 10.64

30.52 ± 10.02

31.60 ± 11.30

0.911

0.854

0.687

Sex (*M/F)e

75.0/25.0

68.4/31.60

67.6/32.40

48.5/51.50

0.003

0.020

0.013

Genomic Ancestryf,g

 European

0.529 ± 0.299

0.583 ± 0.272

0.587 ± 0.259

0.594 ± 0.201

0.354

0.890

0.766

 African

0.242 ± 0.231

0.137 ± 0.169

0.161 ± 0.175

0.124 ± 0.124

0.018

0.392

0.040

 Native American

0.235 ± 0.169

0.267 ± 0.169

0.263 ± 0.189

0.281 ± 0.180

0.302

0.976

0.602

  1. The data are shown as mean ± standard deviation
  2. Pfa, Plasmodium falciparum; Pvb, Plasmodium vivax; CGc, Control group; Student’s t-testd; Pearson’s chi-squared teste; Mann–Whitney testf; *M, male; F, female. The values highlighted in bold are statistically significant. The proportions of genomic ancestry were estimated using the STRUCTURE softwareg
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