Clustering of the 615 genes (Figure 4 and supplementary Tables S3a, S3b.xls) illustrates that the expression of a number of chemokine ligands, including CCL2, CCL8 and CCL3L1 was more frequent in pleural effusions possibly reflecting the larger number of leukocytes in these specimens (Figure 4C, panel b). This evidence concerns the gene CCL3L3 and Pleural effusion.