Table 2

Association of 40F and 43E with thymidine analogue-associated mutations

pos1
pos2
phi
OR
% pos2 in pos1
P value

40F
43E
0.287
38.2
84%
<10E-09
40F
41L
0.125
6.9
99%
<10E-09
40F
210W
0.162
11.2
97%
<10E-09
40F
215Y
0.124
7.2
94%
<10E-09
40F
67N
0.107
6.6
79%
<10E-09
40F
70R
0.001
1.1
9%
NS
40F
215F
-0.001
0.9
4%
NS
40F
219E
0.032
4.6
14%
<10E-09
40F
219Q
-0.003
0.8
4%
NS

43E
40F
0.287
38.2
10%
<10E-09
43E
41L
0.326
6.3
91%
<10E-09
43E
210W
0.367
9.0
78%
<10E-09
43E
215Y
0.31
6.4
82%
<10E-09
43E
67N
0.211
4.8
58%
<10E-09
43E
70R
-0.002
0.9
9%
NS
43E
215F
0.014
1.4
7%
9.7E-08
43E
219E
0.009
1.4
4%
NS
43E
219Q
0.004
1.1
6%
NS

Binomial correlation coefficients (phi) and Odds Ratios (OR) were calculated for 57 amino acid substitutions at 34 reverse transcriptase codons to study the association of E40F and K43E with each other and with known thymidine analogue associated mutations.

Phi: binomial correlation coefficient (1.0 = perfect pairwise correlation). OR: Odds Ratio – the observed frequency of the pair divided by the product of the individual mutation frequencies. P-value: chisquare probability was evaluated for significance at a Benjamini-Hochberg false discovery rate (FDR) of 0.01 for 1,566 multiple comparisons.

NS: Not significant at FDR 0.01.

Sequences with a phi value of 0.15 or greater, an odds ratio of > 2 and FDR of 0.01 were considered to be co-varying.

Huigen et al. Retrovirology 2008 5:20   doi:10.1186/1742-4690-5-20

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