Skip to main content
. 2002 May;50(5):624–628. doi: 10.1136/gut.50.5.624

Table 5.

Odds ratios (OR) for coeliac disease concordance among non-index twins, estimated by logistic regression

Characteristic Concordant pairs for CD Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Zygosity and No of shared haplotypes
    DZ sharing 0 or 1 haplotype 2/21 (10%) 1.0
    DZ sharing 2 haplotypes 1/6 (17%) 1.4 (0.0–27.4)
    MZ 15/20 (75%) 17.0 (2.1–134.0)
DQ genotype
    Not DQ2 or DQ8 2/12 (17%) 1.0
    DQ2 15/29 (52%) 3.3 (0.4–30.0)
    DQ8 1/6 (17%) 1.4 (0.0–41.0)
Sex of the non-index twin
    Male 6/22 (27%) 1.0
    Female 12/25 (48%) 1.3 (0.2–8.5)
Age at enrolment (y)
    ≤10 5/17 (29%) 1.0
    11–30 9/22 (41%) 1.6 (0.2–11.0)
    >30 4/8 (50%) 2.2 (0.2–27.7)

MZ, monozygotic, DZ, dizygotic.

95% CI, 95% confidence interval.

HHS Vulnerability Disclosure