Table 2.
Frequencies of ABCC11 genotypes and allele c.538A among different ethnic groups.
| Ethnic groups | Tribes or inhabitants | No. of individuals with genotypes | Number of individuals genotyped | Frequency of allele“A” | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA (frequency) | GA | GG | ||||
| Korean§ | Daegu city inhabitants | 100 (1.000) | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1.000 |
| Chinese§ | Northern and southern Han Chinese | 42 (0.808) | 10 | 0 | 52 | 0.904 |
| Mongolian | Khalkha tribe§ | 126 (0.759) | 36 | 4 | 166 | 0.867 |
| Japanese | Nagasaki people (West-end prefecture of Japan mainland)§ | 87 (0.690) | 35* | 4 | 126 | 0.829 |
| Okinawa people (Southwest-end prefecture of Japan) | 30 (0.517) | 25 | 3 | 58 | 0.733 | |
| Yonaguni islander (West-end island of Japan)§ | 13 (0.433) | 15 | 2 | 30 | 0.683 | |
| Ainu in Biratori-Nibutani village in Hokkaido§ | 31 (0.534) | 23 | 2 | 58 | 0.733 | |
| Vietnamese | People from multiple regions | 82 (0.536) | 60 | 11 | 153 | 0.732 |
| Thai | Northern Thai [Lahu, Shan, Lisu, Hmong, Akha, Mlaburi, and Karen (Mae-sot Thai) tribes combined] | 215 (0.505) | 163 | 48 | 426 | 0.696 |
| Central Thai in Bangkok | 31 (0.633) | 10 | 8 | 49 | 0.735 | |
| Southern Thai (Orang Laut and Sakai tribes combined) | 2 (0.026) | 23 | 52 | 77 | 0.175 | |
| Indonesian | Dayak tribe in Kalimantan | 12 (0.293) | 23 | 9 | 41 | 0.573 |
| Toraja and Bugis tribes in Sulawesi | 27 (0.270) | 49 | 24 | 100 | 0.515 | |
| Flores | 18 (0.300) | 25 | 17 | 60 | 0.508 | |
| Sumba | 9 (0.180) | 16 | 25 | 50 | 0.340 | |
| WA tribe in Irian Jaya | 0 (0.000) | 2 | 31 | 33 | 0.030 | |
| Malaysian | Sabah in North Borneo§ | 24 (0.393) | 27 | 10 | 61 | 0.566 |
| Bentong tribe | 8 (0.113) | 40 | 23 | 71 | 0.394 | |
| Taiwanese | Taiwan Aborigine (Yami and Ami combined) | 34 (0.330) | 48 | 21 | 103 | 0.563 |
| Native American§ | 6† (0.300) | 8† | 6 | 20 | 0.500 | |
| Filipino | Palawan | 11 (0.229) | 23 | 14 | 48 | 0.469 |
| Easter Islander§ | 4 (0.148) | 17 | 6 | 27 | 0.463 | |
| Pacific islander§ | 1 (0.143) | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0.429 | |
| Bolivian§,¶ | Aymara | 5 (0.167) | 14 | 11 | 30 | 0.400 |
| Kazakh | 6 (0.200) | 11 | 13 | 30 | 0.383 | |
| Native Paraguayan | Ayoreos | 2 (0.040) | 34 | 14 | 50 | 0.380 |
| Sanapana | 0 (0.000) | 14 | 61 | 75 | 0.093 | |
| Russian§ | 5 (0.045) | 45 | 62 | 112 | 0.246 | |
| Solomon Islander§ | 2 (0.323) | 25 | 35 | 62 | 0.234 | |
| French§ | From the CEPH families | 1 (0.083) | 3 | 8 | 12 | 0.208 |
| Andes people§ | 1 (0.100) | 2† | 6 | 10 | 0.200 | |
| Hungarian§ | 0 (0.000) | 4 | 6 | 10 | 0.200 | |
| Jew§ | Ashkenazi | 0 (0.000) | 4 | 6 | 10 | 0.200 |
| Ukrainian§ | 0 (0.000) | 15 | 27 | 42 | 0.179 | |
| Papuan | Papua New Guinea | 1 (0.026) | 11 | 26 | 38 | 0.171 |
| American of European | From CEPH families without the French and Venezuelans ancestry§ | 1 (0.012) | 16 | 65 | 82 | 0.110 |
| Venezuelan§ | Ye’Kuana village | 0 (0.000) | 3 | 11 | 14 | 0.107 |
| Sanuma village | 0 (0.000) | 0 | 19 | 19 | 0.000 | |
| Vanuatu islander | Aneityum and Santo islanders combined | 1 (0.011) | 17 | 74 | 92 | 0.103 |
| Iberian§ | 0 (0.000) | 2 | 8 | 10 | 0.100 | |
| Columbian | 0 (0.000) | 2 | 17 | 19 | 0.053 | |
| African | From various sub-Saharan nations | 0 (0.000) | 1 | 11 | 12 | 0.042 |
| American of African ancestry§ | 0 (0.000) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0.000 | |
Data are from Yoshiura et al. (2006).
§
Examined for a 27-bp deletion (A27) in ABCC11;
*
One e xceptional case of dry cerumen who has the deletion;
†
One each case of the deletion;
¶
Nine cases of the deletion.