Table 3.
Serum tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α levels in context of different TNF genotypes. Numbers in parentheses indicate [± standard deviation (s.d.)].
| Patients | Controls | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Locus | Number | Log TNF-α levels (±s.d.) | F-ratio | d.f. | P-value | Number | Log TNF-α levels (±s.d.) | F-ratio | d.f. | P-value |
| TNFA-308G>A | 3·83 | 1 | 0·054 | 0·1 | 2 | 0·91 | ||||
| AA | – | – | 12 | 1·94 (± 0·08) | ||||||
| GA | 79 | 0·96 (± 0·6) | 18 | 1·64 (± 0·95) | ||||||
| GG | 74 | 1·65 (± 1·02) | 92 | 1·67 (± 0·91) | ||||||
| TNFA-238G>A | 13·32 | 1 | 0·0005 | 0·128 | 1 | 0·72 | ||||
| GA | 7 | 2·82 (± 1·07) | 12 | 1·58 (± 0·71) | ||||||
| GG | 76 | 1·46 (± 0·93) | 100 | 1·68 (± 0·93) | ||||||