Table 5.
CTLA-4 allele counts and frequencies in breast cancer patients and healthy controls
| SNP | Breast cancer (n = 117) | Healthy controls (n = 148) | P-value | Odds ratio (95% CI) | ||
| Allele count (minor/major) | Allele frequency | Allele count (minor/major) | Allele frequency | |||
| CTLA-4 -1661G/A# | 49/169 | 22.5% | 39/257 | 13.2% | 0.0057 a | 1.91 (1.21–3.02) |
| CTLA-4 -658T/C† | 6/224 | 2.6% | 40/250 | 13.8% | 0.0000082 b | 0.17 (0.08–0.37) |
| CTLA-4 -318T/C | 33/201 | 14.1% | 19/277 | 6.4% | 0.0031 c | 2.39 (1.34–4.27) |
| CTLA-4 +49G/A | 79/155 | 33.8% | 116/180 | 39.2% | 0.20 | |
| CTLA-4 CT60G/A | 95/139 | 40.6% | 92/204 | 31.1% | 0.023 | 1.52 (1.06–2.17) |
# patients (n = 109), missing (n = 8); controls (n = 148), missing (n = 0)
† patients (n = 115), missing (n = 2); controls (n = 145), missing (n = 3)
aP = 0.031, bP = 0.00010 and cP = 0.017 after correcting the P-value for multiple testing by Haploview program using 10,000 permutations.