Table 2.
Affective symptoms and COMT genotype and allele frequencies in African American and Caucasian patients with psychotic disorders
| Race | Affective symptoms |
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| Yes | No | Total | Chi-square, df, P | |||
| African American | Genotype | Met/Met | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1.01, 2, P = 0.6 |
| Met/Val | 14 | 13 | 27 | |||
| Val/Val | 11 | 12 | 23 | |||
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| Alleles | Met | 20 | 15 | 24 | 0.58,1, P = 0.45 | |
| Val | 36 | 37 | 32 | |||
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| Caucasian | Genotype | Met/Met | 4 | 5 | 9 | 3.9, 2, P = 0.14 |
| Met/Val | 14 | 6 | 20 | |||
| Val/Val | 3 | 6 | 9 | |||
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| Alleles | Met | 22 | 16 | 38 | 0.21, 2, P = 0.65 | |
| Val | 20 | 18 | 38 | |||