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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 21.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Genet Metab. 2009 Jun 6;98(1-2):181–186. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2009.05.012

Table 3.

Polygenic influence of variants in the CBS, MS, MTRR and MTHFR genes on tHcy concentrations before (y 0, y 7) and after (y 15) folic acid fortification in 997 Caucasians and 692 African Americans in the CARDIA study.

Variable y 0, 1985 y 7, 1992 y 15, 2000 y 0 – 15 y 7 – 15
Caucasian P-value for modela <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001 <.001
R square for model 0.17 0.21 0.26 0.06 0.05
P-value for F-testb
CBS 844ins68 0.61 0.37 0.19 0.91 0.98
MS 2756A>G 0.44 0.84 0.33 0.71 0.43
MTRR 66A>G 0.36 0.52 0.93 0.91 0.64
MTHFR 677C>T <.001 <.001 0.004 <.001 <.001
MTHFR 1298A>C 0.06 0.1 0.29 0.38 0.64
African American P-value for modela <.001 <.001 <.001 0.015 <.001
R square for model 0.13 0.17 0.18 0.04 0.17
P-value for F-testb
CBS 844ins68 0.48 0.22 0.39 0.95 0.35
MS 2756A>G 0.03 0.01 0.007 0.73 0.88
MTRR 66A>G 0.5 0.93 0.61 0.52 0.58
MTHFR 677C>T 0.003 <.001 0.17 0.001 <.001
MTHFR 1298A>C 0.34 0.3 0.69 0.82 0.75
a

Codominant model was contructed for the genetic variants

b

ANOVA was used to identify significant association between genetic variants and tHcy after adjusting for other genes.