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. 2009 Feb 16;4(2):e4496. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004496

Table 4. Patients sub grouped according to disease behaviour, L4 phenotype and surgery.

Disease behaviour and severity
overall L1 L2 L3 ileal CD CD controls <> L1+L3
disease behaviour B1 (inflammatory) 17,12% 67,71% 22,20% 20,73% 31,31%
MAF 26,32% 24,17% 28,10% 27,67% 25,97%
B2 (stricturing) 50,90% 7,17% 27,71% 34,42% 28,28% statistics for stricturing behaviour C<>T CC<>CT+TT
MAF 30,97% 21,88% 31,46% 31,25% 30,71% 1.32; p = 0.00686 1.34; p = 0.02745
B3 (penetrating) 31,98% 25,11% 50,09% 44,85% 40,40% Armitage's trend CC<>TT
MAF 31,69% 26,79% 28,02% 28,78% 28,50% 1.30; p = 0.00963 1.71; p = 0.01460
upper GI involvement L4 11,84% 8,00% 16,03% 14,80% 13,27% statistics for L4 C<>T CC<>CT+TT
MAF 35,19% 22,22% 31,25% 32,17% 30,83% 1.38; p = 0.02882 1.50; p = 0.03749
no L4 88,16% 92,00% 83,97% 85,20% 86,73% Armitage's trend CC<>TT
MAF 29,60% 24,88% 29,18% 29,31% 28,25% 1.33; p = 0.03561 1.68; p = 0.10543
surgery at least one 77,97% 33,33% 64,68% 68,54% 60,68%
MAF 30,79% 24,00% 29,11% 29,66% 28,97%
no 22,03% 66,67% 35,32% 31,46% 39,32%
MAF 29,00% 25,00% 29,59% 29,47% 27,78%

MAF = minor allele frequency.

Shown are percentages of individuals per group as well as the TCF-4 (TCF7L2) rs3814570 T- allele frequency (minor allele frequency MAF). Differences in genotype distribution compared to controls (all controls from Table 2) in general as well as the amount of all carriers (allele positivity) and the amount of homozygous carriers were subject to t- tests in patients with ileal CD. Finally, results of the Armitage's trend tests for verification of significant associations of the rare T- variant are shown.