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. 2012 Feb 22;7(2):e31763. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031763

Table 2. Association of AVPR1A and SLC6A4 SNPs, and 5 -HTTLPR, with singer/non-musician status.

Gene/polymorphism Location (basepairs) Individual alleles (minor/major) Minor allele frequency in choral singers (n = 261) Minor allele frequency in non-musicians (n = 258) Odds ratio (95% CI) P value
AVPR1A
rs1042615 63544209 A/G 0.42 0.42 1.01 (0.79–1.29) 0.93
rs10877969 63547239 C/T 0.14 0.14 1.05 (0.74–1.50) 0.78
rs11174811 63540476 A/C 0.14 0.15 0.94 (0.67–1.33) 0.73
SLC6A4
5-HTTLPR 28564498+ (La+Lg)/(Sa+Sg)* 0.42 0.40 1.10 (0.83–1.45) 0.50
rs2020933 28561755 T/A 0.05 0.06 0.81 (0.47–1.41) 0.46
rs2066713 28551665 A/G 0.37 0.42 0.81 (0.63–1.04) 0.09
rs2020939 28550732 A/G 0.44 0.39 1.24 (0.97–1.59) 0.08
rs8076005 28547210 G/A 0.20 0.20 1.02 (0.75–1.39) 0.89
rs2020942 28546914 T/C 0.37 0.42 0.81 (0.63–1.04) 0.11
rs140700 28543389 T/C 0.10 0.10 1.02 (0.69–1.53) 0.90
rs4583306 28538715 G/A 0.42 0.38 1.18 (0.92–1.51) 0.19
rs140701 28538532 T/C 0.42 0.38 1.19 (0.93–1.52) 0.17
rs4325622 28526475 C/T 0.47 0.43 1.15 (0.90–1.47) 0.25
rs3813034 28524804 C/A 0.46 0.43 1.14 (0.90–1.46) 0.28

*At 5-HTTLPR long alleles La and Lg have been combined, as have short alleles Sa and Sg, to permit analysis as a bi-allelic marker.