Table 5.
The four most common haplotypes were comprised of the seven SNPs in the TLR4 gene.
| SNPs | Haplotypes* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| rs10759930 | T | T | C | C |
| rs1927914 | A | A | G | G |
| rs12377632 | C | C | T | T |
| rs2149356 | G | G | T | T |
| rs11536889 | C | G | G | G |
| rs7037117 | A | A | G | A |
| rs7045953 | A | A | A | A |
| Freq. in emphysema | 0.336 | 0.301 | 0.142 | 0.100 |
| Freq. in control smokers | 0.219 | 0.386 | 0.123 | 0.165 |
| p†(emphysema vs. controls) | 0.004‡ | 0.051 | 0.538 | 0.039# |
The observed frequencies are shown for patients with the emphysema phenotype and control smokers
Abbreviations: A adenine; C cytosine; Freq. frequency; G guanine; SNPs single nucleotide polymorphisms; T thymine; TLR4 Toll-like receptor 4
*The designation of haplotype structure is given in Arabic numerals
† By chi-square test
‡Odds Ratio = 1.80, 95% Confidence Intervals = 1.21- 2.70
# Odds Ratio = 0.56, 95% Confidence Intervals = 0.33- 0.97