Supplementary Figure S1 from Circulating Mitochondrial DNA Level, a Noninvasive Biomarker for the Early Detection of Gastric Cancer

Supplementary Figure S1 : Effect of H. pylori infection on the levels of mtDNA in leukocytes of NAG and GC spatients as compared to healthy blood donors in cohort 1. MtDNA was determined by quantitaive PCR and the presence of H. pylori infection by serology as described in material and methods. H. pylori infected patients are represented in black symbols and non-infected in gray symbols. Each symbol represents a single patient, bars correspond to mean{plus minus}SEM. Each samples was tested in triplicate in three independent experiments. *p-value<0.05; ***p-value<0.001.