a decreasing trendp = 0.01
Analysis of Factors Associated with DW-Type at Positions 70 and 91 We analyzed the relationship between the presence of the DW-type amino acid and patient profiles and found that fibrosis stage ( p = 0.02) was the only factor that correlated with the presence of DW-type amino acid: patients showed a decreasing trend for the proportion of DW-type amino acid according to fibrosis stage (16/38 (42%) for F1, 3/27 (11%) for F2, 5/25 (20%) for F3, and 0/3 (0%) for F4; p = 0.01; Figure 3 ).