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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Reprod Immunol. 2010 Oct 20;87(1-2):82–89. doi: 10.1016/j.jri.2010.06.158

Table 2.

Preterm delivery by genotype among non-Hispanic white and African-American women in the POUCH subcohort

Non-Hispanic White
N=560
African American
N=447
Genotype Term Deliveries
N (weighted %)
Preterm Deliveries
N (weighted %)
OR (95% CI) a Term Deliveries
N (weighted %)
Preterm Deliveries
N (weighted %)
OR (95% CI) a
TNF-α −G238A
  Common allele 372 (90.6%) 134 (9.4%) 341 (86.1%) 73 (13.9%)
  Rare allele 39 (90.3%) 15 (9.7%) 1.0 (0.5, 1.9) 25 (79.5%) 8 (20.5%) 1.6 (0.7, 3.4)
TNF-α −G308A
  Common allele 274 (89.8%) 108 (10.2%) 274 (85.1 %) 64 (14.9%)
  Rare allele 137 (92.2%) 41 (7.8%) 0.7 (0.5, 1.0) 92 (87.3%) 17 (12.7%) 0.8 (0.5, 1.4)
IL-1β +C3954Tb
  Common allele 248 (90.5%) 89 (9.5%) 268 (84.0 %) 66 (16.0%)
  Rare allele 162 (90.8%) 59 (9.2%) 1.0 (0.8, 1.5) 98 (90.3%) 15 (9.7%) 0.8 (0.4, 1.4)
a

OR= Odds Ratio and 95 % confidence intervals for preterm birth was calculated by weighted logistic regression (with inverse probability weights to account for the POUCH Study sampling scheme). The heterozygote and homozygote rare allele genotypes were grouped together (rare allele) and compared to the homozygote non-rare allele genotype (common allele). The term common allele group was the reference category.

b

Two non-Hispanic white woman are missing IL-1β genotype.