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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2009 Apr 1;115(7):1498–1506. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24157

Table 2.

Association of COX-2 Haplotypes* and OPL Risk Stratified by Patient Characteristics

Variables H1 (WWW**)
H2 (WMW)
H3 (MMW)
H4 (MMM)
Cases/Controls OR (95% CI)# Cases/Controls OR (95% CI) Cases/Controls OR (95% CI) Cases/Controls OR (95% CI)
P P P P
Overall
173/191 Reference 53/37 0.55 (0.33−0.93) 47/32 0.62 (0.35−1.08) 7/3 0.38 (0.09−1.60)
0.027 0.093 0.187
Age
Young 80/97 Reference 23/17 0.49 (0.22−1.09) 26/14 0.33 (0.13−0.83) 4/2 0.25 (0.04−1.47)
0.080 0.019 0.126
Old 93/94 Reference 30/20 0.65 (0.31−1.35) 21/18 0.80 (0.36−1.80) 3/1 0.49 (0.05−5.15)
0.247 0.590 0.555
Gender
Male 90/106 Reference 29/26 0.58 (0.28−1.21) 32/17 0.44 (0.20−0.96) 3/3 0.55 (0.08−4.04)
0.145 0.040 0.58
Female 83/85 Reference 24/11 0.42 (0.18−0.99) 15/15 0.84 (0.36−1.96) 4/0 N/A
0.047 0.681
Smoking status
Never 92/58 Reference 31/10 0.53 (0.24−1.15) 24/16 1.07 (0.47−2.41) 6/0 N/A
0.108 0.874
Ever 81/133 Reference 22/27 0.60 (0.29−1.24) 22/16 0.37 (0.17−0.81) 1/3 1.16 (0.10−13.88 )
0.168 0.013 0.909
Alcohol status
Never 56/85 Reference 21/18 0.39 (0.15−1.04) 12/13 0.57 (0.20−1.63) 2/3 0.54 (0.09−3.13)
0.059 0.294 0.493
Ever 117/106 Reference 32/19 0.55 (0.28−1.09) 35/19 0.60 (0.29−1.22) 5/0 N/A
0.086 0.160
*

Order of SNPs comprising COX-2 haplotype: −765G>C, exon 10 +837T>C, and exon 10 −90C>T.

**

W: wild-type allele, M: variant allele.

OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; WW, homozygous wild-type genotype; WM, heterozygous genotype; MM, homozygous variant genotype.

#

Adjusted for age, gender, ethnicity, smoking status, and pack-years for the overall analysis; adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, and pack-years for the analysis that was stratified by smoking status; adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, and smoking status for the analysis that was stratified by smoking level; adjusted for age, ethnicity, smoking status, and pack-years for the analysis that was stratified by sex; and adjusted for sex, ethnicity, smoking status, and pack-years for the analysis that was stratified by age.

N/A: Not available.