Table 8. Association Results Comparing Choroidal Neovascularization vs Geographic Atrophy Phenotypes of Age-Related Macular Degeneration for Gene Variant TIMP3 rs9621532.
Sample | CNV | GA | OR | 95% CI | χ2 P Value | ||
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C Allele Frequency | n | C Allele Frequency | n | ||||
Tufts | 0.041 | 1080 | 0.047 | 236 | 0.87 | 0.54–1.40 | .56 |
AREDS | 0.038 | 596 | 0.06 | 242 | 0.66 | 0.41–1.08 | .10 |
Creteil | 0.023 | 867 | 0.011 | 45 | 2.10 | 0.30–14.78 | .46 |
Utah | 0.026 | 498 | 0.037 | 148 | 0.69 | 0.34–1.42 | .32 |
Total | 3041 | 671 | |||||
Meta-Analysis | 0.78 | 0.58–1.05 | .10 |
AREDS = Age-Related Eye Disease Study; CI = confidence interval; CNV = choroidal neovascularization; GA = geographic atrophy; OR = odds ratio.