Table 4.
Age and gender adjusted Odds Ratios (95% CI) of gastric cancer for selected gene-gene interaction analyses
| GSTT1 | SULT1A1 | ||||
| Present | Null | Arg/Arg | His car. | ||
| NAT2 | Fast | 1* | 1. 38 (0.63–3.01) | 1* | 1.45 (0. 71–2.95) |
| cases/controls | 30/93 | 13/29 | 23/74 | 20/48 | |
| Slow | 1.07 (0.61–1.88) | 3.00 (1.52–5.93) | 1.40 (0. 75–2.60) | 2.00 (1.03–3.89) | |
| cases/controls | 36/103 | 26/28 | 35/81 | 29/50 | |
| p for interaction† = 0.17 | p for interaction = 0.97 | ||||
| AP‡ = 52% | AP = 8% | ||||
| SULT1A1 | Arg/Arg | 1* | 1.53 (0.86–2.71) | - | - |
| cases/controls | 35/122 | 22/34 | |||
| His carriers | 2.30 (1.18–4.45) | 2.87 (1.36–6.05) | - | - | |
| cases/controls | 31/75 | 17/23 | |||
| p for interaction = 0.70 | |||||
| AP = 1% | |||||
* Reference category; † By likelihood ratio test; ‡ Attributable Proportion due to biological interaction (see methods)