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. 2009 Oct 12;170(10):1222–1230. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwp263

Table 2.

Associations Between Use of Hair Dye and Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma According to Cytochrome P-450 Genotype Among Connecticut Women, 1996–2000

CYP2C9 (rs1799853)
P Valuea CYP2E1 (rs2070673)
P Valuea
CC
CT + TT
TT
AT + AA
No. of Cases No. of Controls ORb 95% CI No. of Cases No. of Controls ORb 95% CI No. of Cases No. of Controls ORb 95% CI No. of Cases No. of Controls ORb 95% CI
Total
    Never use 100 124 1.0 Referent 16 33 1.0 Referent 75 98 1.0 Referent 41 59 1.0 Referent
    Ever use 258 287 1.1 0.8, 1.5 81 89 1.9 1.0, 3.8 0.154 220 255 1.1 0.8, 1.6 121 122 1.4 0.9, 2.3 0.434
Year of starting hair dye use (vs. never use)
    Before 1980 166 170 1.2 0.9, 1.7 58 43 2.9 1.4, 6.1 0.033 143 148 1.3 0.9, 1.8 81 65 2.0 1.2, 3.4 0.245
    1980 or later 92 117 0.9 0.6, 1.4 23 46 1.0 0.4, 2.3 0.889 77 107 1.0 0.6, 1.5 40 57 0.9 0.5, 1.7 0.808
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtype among women who started using hair dye before 1980 (vs. never use)
    Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma 46 170 1.0 0.6, 1.6 15 43 2.0 0.7, 5.9 0.212 43 148 1.1 0.6, 1.9 18 65 1.2 0.5, 2.7 0.918
    Follicular lymphoma 35 170 1.4 0.7, 2.6 20 43 6.3 1.6, 24.7 0.055 34 148 1.4 0.7, 2.8 21 65 3.9 1.4, 11.1 0.161
    CLL/SLL 25 170 1.7 0.8, 3.5 6 43 4.6 0.5, 40.1 0.386 20 148 1.5 0.6, 3.4 11 65 3.2 0.9, 12.4 0.302

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; CLL/SLL, chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic leukemia; CYP, cytochrome P-450; OR, odds ratio.

a

P value for the interaction between a given hair dye exposure variable and genotype variations in a logistic regression model, with adjustment for age (continuous) and race (white vs. nonwhite).

b

Logistic regression model with adjustment for age (continuous) and race (white vs. nonwhite).