Erythrocyte Shape Abnormalities, Membrane Oxidative Damage, and β-Actin Alterations: An Unrecognized Triad in Classical Autism

Table 2

Correlation matrix for RBC shape as a function of RBC parameters in autistic patients.

RBC variables	Erythrocyte shape class
	Disco-	Ellipto-	Echino-	Lepto-	Knizo-	Codo-	Stomato-
Hb	0.0159	0.1831	−0.7776*	0.1151	0.6907*	−0.0336	0.5855*
	(0.5452)	(0.9729)	(0.0011)	(0.4698)	(0.0062)	(0.9864)	(0.0278)
MCV	−0.2616	0.2063	−0.0556	−0.2841	0.2308	0.1960	0.4090
	(0.1479)	(0.2834)	(0.8471)	(0.2442)	(0.3414)	(0.4069)	(0.1580)
MCH	−0.0771	0.2980	−0.3959	−0.1329	0.2868	0.0847	0.4720
	(0.6423)	(0.3586)	(0.1732)	(0.4530)	(0.1144)	(0.8030)	(0.1099)
MCHC	0.2571	0.3688	−0.8379*	−0.0232	0.2720	−0.1233	0.6070*
	(0.3502)	(0.1553)	(0.0002)	(0.8842)	(0.2860)	(0.3714)	(0.0214)
RDW	0.8915*	−0.0476	−0.4498	0.7245*	0.0357	−0.8181*	0.8278*
	(0.0050)	(0.8806)	(0.0672)	(0.0078)	(0.9516)	(0.0038)	(0.0031)

Data are Spearman’s rho correlation coefficients with in brackets 𝑃 values (𝑁=15). Bold characters with asterisks indicate statistically significant correlations.
Disco-: discocytes; Ellipto-: elliptocytes; Echino-: echinocytes; Lepto-: leptocytes; Knizo-: knizocytes; Codo-: codocytes; Stomato-: stomatocytes; Hb: hemoglobin; MCV: mean corpuscular volume; MCH: mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCHC: mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration; RDW: red cell distribution width.