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. 2007 Aug;66(8):1116–1120. doi: 10.1136/ard.2006.062018

Table 2 Vitamin D receptor and interleukin 6 allele and genotype frequencies in controls, aseptic and septic total hip replacement failures (numbers in brackets).

Control Aseptic Septic
VDR‐T SNP
Number of subjects 148 88 63
Allele frequency
 G 0.60 (178) 0.64 (112) 0.47 (59)
 T 0.40 (118) 0.36 (64) 0.53 (67)
Genotype frequency
 G/G 0.37 (55) 0.40 (35) 0.25 (16)
 G/T 0.46 (68) 0.48 (42) 0.43 (27)
 T/T 0.17 (25) 0.12 (11) 0.32 (20)
SNP IL6 –174
Number of subjects 149 87 63
Allele frequency
 T 0.60 (178) 0.58 (101) 0.58 (73)
 C 0.40 (120) 0.42 (73) 0.42 (53)
Genotype frequency
 T/T 0.39 (57) 0.35 (31) 0.29 (18)
 T/C 0.43 (64) 0.44 (39) 0.59 (37)
 C/C 0.18 (28) 0.21 (17) 0.12 (8)

IL, interleukin; SNP, single‐nucleotide polymorphism; VDR, vitamin D receptor.