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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Feb 22;17(3):525–534. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2704

Table 4.

Odds Ratios (ORs) and 95% Confience Intervals (CIs) for Biliary Tract Cancer in relation to APOB and LDLR haplotypes

Biliary Tract Cancers

Gene Haplotype Controls Gallbladder1 Bile Duct2 Ampulla of Vater2


n (%) n (%) OR3 (95%CI)3 n (%) OR3 (95%CI)3 n (%) OR3 (95%CI)3



Total # Haplotypes 1558 (100.0) 470 (100.0) -   -   250 (100.0) -   -   92 (100.0) -   -  
APOB EX26-3573T>C - IVS23-79T>C
T-T 1165 (74.8) 356 (75.7) 1.00 -   183 (73.2) 1.00 -   66 (71.7) 1.00 -  
C-C 385 (24.7) 114 (24.3) 0.98 (0.77–1.25)   67 (26.8) 1.11 (0.82–1.51)   25 (27.0) 1.13 (0.71–1.82)  
Other 4 8 (0.5) 0 (0.0) -   -   0 (0.0) -   -   1 (1.3) -   -  
          P 5 0.40 0.50 <0.001
APOB IVS6+360C>T - EX4+56C>T
C-C 1251 (80.3) 376 (80.0) 1.00 -   189 (75.5) 1.00 -   73 (79.4) 1.00 -  
T-T 184 (11.8) 51 (10.9) 1.18 (0.77–1.82)   43 (17.0) 1.58 (1.07–2.33)   9 (9.8) 0.87 (0.42–1.81)  
T-C 90 (5.8) 34 (7.3) 0.91 (0.65–1.27)   17 (6.6) 1.21 (0.70–2.10)   5 (5.4) 0.84 (0.30–2.39)  
Other 4 33 (2.1) 8 (1.8) -   -   2 (0.9) -   -   5 (5.4) 3.1 (1.12–8.61)  
          P 5 0.76 0.05 0.12
IVS9-30C>T - EX10+55G>A -
EX15-80G>A - IVS17-42A>G -
LDLR EX18+88G>A
C-A-G-A-A 458 (29.4) 145 (30.8) 1.00 -   76 (30.5) 1.00 -   33 (35.8) 1.00 -  
C-G-G-A-G 430 (27.6) 116 (24.6) 0.86 (0.65–1.14)   70 (27.8) 0.96 (0.68–1.37)   10 (10.8) 0.38 (0.19–0.76)  
C-G-G-G-G 168 (10.8) 67 (14.2) 1.07 (0.76–1.51)   27 (10.8) 0.80 (0.50–1.26)   20 (21.7) 1.16 (0.65–2.06)  
T-G-G-G-G 185 (11.9) 54 (11.4) 0.89 (0.62–1.29)   45 (17.8) 1.43 (0.95–2.17)   7 (7.6) 0.46 (0.19–1.09)  
C-G-G-A-A 109 (7.0) 27 (5.8) 0.83 (0.51–1.35)   16 (6.3) 0.83 (0.45–1.55)   14 (15.2) 1.60 (0.79–3.22)  
C-A-A-A-G 50 (3.2) 28 (6.0) 1.06 (0.67–1.68)   8 (3.2) 0.64 (0.30–1.33)   4 (4.3) -   -  
Other 4 157 (10.1) 34 (7.2) 1.38 (0.85–2.24)   9 (3.6) 0.70 (0.31–1.57)   4 (4.6) -   -  
          P 5 0.04 1.00 0.001
1

Gallbadder cancer cases compared with population controls who had a gallbladder (n=730)

2

Bile duct and ampulla of Vater cancer cases compared to all population controls (n=779)

3

Adjusted for age

4

Combined haplotypes having frequency <1% among population controls

5

Omnibus score test