Table 1. Allele designation based on intron 3 length polymorphism, indicating size of obtained fragments with primer combinations A and B, number of repeat motives, intron 3 difference and total length.

eIF4E variant	Primer combination A product (bp)	Primer combination B product (bp)	copies of 50 bp repeat	copies of 56 bp repeat	intron 3 difference	intron 3 length (bp)
S	293	586	2	2	0	1201
A	243	586	1	2	−50 bp	1151
B	293	536	2	1	−70 bp	1131
C	293	592	2	3	+56 bp	1257