Table 6. Allele frequencies of MYOC microsatellites.

Microsatellite allele	Cardiff University Cohort			Tang et al. [17]
	Family founders	Cases	Controls	Family founders
NGA17 alleles
12 repeats	0.000	0.033	0.028	-
13 repeats	0.597	0.637	0.550	0.501
14 repeats	0.184	0.156	0.170	0.184
15 repeats	0.219	0.174	0.252	0.312
16 repeats	-	-	-	0.003
NGA19 alleles
11 repeats	-	-	-	0.0015
12 repeats	0.000	0.014	0.000	-
13 repeats	0.342	0.344	0.400	0.218
14 repeats	0.039	0.047	0.004	0.008
15 repeats	0.619	0.595	0.596	0.711
16 repeats	-	-	-	0.060
17 repeats	-	-	-	0.0015

The values shown in the table are the microsatellite marker allele frequencies for the subjects in the Cardiff University cohort, who were all of Caucasian ethnicity, and for subjects in the cohort of Tang et al. [17], who were all of Chinese ethnicity.