TABLE 1
FROM:
Quantitative and qualitative approaches to GOD: the first 10 years of the clonal selection theory
Margaret A Jordan and Alan G Baxter
BACK TO ARTICLETable 1. Frequencies (f) of antibody producing cells of two different specificities, S1 and S2, total numbers of cells examined and the observed and expected numbers of double producers
| Reference | f(S1) | f(S2) | Cell number | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Exp | Obs | P | |||
| Nossal18 | 27/172 | 20/154 | 47 | 1.0 | 0 | NS |
| Nossal and Lederberg19 | 33/228 | 29/228 | 456 | 8.76 | 0 | <0.003 |
| Mäkelä and Nossal20 | 155/1333 | 173/1333 | 1333 | 36.6 | 4 | <0.0001 |
| Nossal and Mäkelä21 | 362/1690 | 202/1690 | 1690 | 43.3 | 19 | <0.0005 |
| Nossal and Mäkelä22 | 422/1729 | 172/1729 | 1729 | 42.0 | 8 | <0.0001 |
| Nossal and Mäkelä22 | 140/1729 | 172/1729 | 1729 | 13.9 | 10 | NS |
| Mäkelä23 | 56/717 | 35/717 | 717 | 2.7 | 0 | NS |
| Attardi et al. 24 | 47/925 | 27/925 | 925 | 1.37 | 21 | <0.0001 |
| Attardi et al. 25 | 19/280 | 11/280 | 280 | 0.75 | 5 | <0.005 |
| Attardi et al. 25 | 19/280 | 14/280 | 280 | 0.75 | 2 | NS |
| Attardi et al. 25 | 11/280 | 14/280 | 280 | 0.75 | 3 | <0.01 |
Abbreviation: NS, not significant.
Significance calculated by
2 goodness-of-fit test of observed and expected numbers of double and nonproducers with 1 degree of freedom. Where more than one combination was studied pair-wise calculations have been made to aid comparison.
