TABLE 1.

Demographic and genetic characteristics of patients with cataract and controls.

	Control	Cataract	p-value
Number (total)	142	493
Age (years), mean±SD	68 ± 5.3	72 ± 8.7	<0.001*
Sex female/male, n (%)	101/41 (71.1/28.9)	342/151 (69.4/30.6)	0.39†
UCHL1
Genotype frequencies, n (%)
AA	3 (2.1)	20 (4.1)	0.039‡
AC	31 (21.8)	153 (31.0)
CC	108 (76.1)	320 (64.9)
Allele frequency, n (%)
A	N = 37 (13.0)	N = 193 (19.6)	0.011†
C	N = 247 (87.0)	N = 793 (80.4)
Allele A-carrier, n (%)	N = 37 (23.90)	N = 193 (35.10)	0.015†

^*Student's t-test

^†Fisher's exact test

^‡Chi-2 test, Pearson's