Table 3.

Frequency of codon 72 alleles of the p53 gene in JCA, RA and control Caucasians

		Pro/Pro		Pro/Arg		Arg/Arg
	n	n	%	n	%	n	%	Pro alleles
Normal control Caucasians worldwide*	885	90	10·2	391	44·2	404	45·6	0·32
JCA and RA patients†	31	4	12·9	12	38·7	15	48·4	0·32
RA patients†	15	1	6·7	7	46·7	7	46·7	0·30
JCA patients†	16	3	18·8	5	31·2	8	50·0	0·34

^*Calculated from references [22,24,32,36–40].

^†This study.