Comparison of cytokine serum levels between discovery and validation sets in patients and healthy controls.

We report the results of all the performed statistical analysis obtained by the nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test in terms of U test and P values, by the Unparied t test in terms of P value, t, the number of degrees of freedom (df), the difference between the means, 95% confidence interval, and R squared, and by F test in terms of F, degrees of freedom for the numerator (DFn) and for the denominator (Dfd) and P value.