Table 1.

Demographic data for homozygotes of the Val allele and for Met carriers (1 homozygote; 41 heterozygotes)

Genotype n = 129	Age (mean, sd)	Race (Caucasia/African American	Gender (m/f)
Val/Val Homozygotes n = 87	51.3, 25.8	77/10	36/51
Met Carriers n = 42	45.2, 23.9	39/3	23/19