Table 1.
Distribution of MAOA – CA and uVNTR alleles in 103 controls and 108 BPD patients.
| Patients (frequency) | Controls (frequency) | |||||
| Allele | Ma | Fa | Total | Ma | Fa | Total |
| CA(bp)b | ||||||
| 116 | 19 (0.42) | 30 (0.37) | 49 | 16 (0.41) | 41 (0.47) | 57 |
| 114 | 7 (0.15) | 11 (0.14) | 18 | 1 (0.03) | 8 (0.09) | 9 |
| 110 | 8 (0.17) | 15 (0.19) | 23 | 10 (0.25) | 14 (0.16) | 24 |
| 108 | 8 (0.17) | 20 (0.25) | 28 | 9 (0.23) | 18 (0.20) | 27 |
| Others | 4 (0.09) | 4 (0.05) | 8 | 3 (0.08) | 7 (0.08) | 10 |
| Total | 46 | 80 | 126 | 39 | 88 | 127 |
| uVNTRc | ||||||
| Short | 32 (0.60) | 49 (0.52) | 81 | 25 (0.48) | 49 (0.58) | 74 |
| Long | 21 (0.40) | 45 (0.48) | 66 | 27 (0.52) | 35 (0.42) | 62 |
| Total | 53 | 94 | 147 | 52 | 84 | 136 |
aM, Males; F, Females.
bDistribution of CA dinucleotide polymorphisms. Common alleles (frequency more than 5%) and the combined rare alleles were shown.
cDistribution of uVNTR polymorphism. The short allele is the 3 repeats, and the long allele includes 4 and 5 repeats.