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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 4.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Genet. 2015 Jan 7;45(2):255–261. doi: 10.1007/s10519-014-9703-5

Table 1.

Genotype Frequencies for triallelic coding of 5HTTLPR and rs25531 by race/ethnicity in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health).

Genotype (N, %)

Race/Ethnicity N L-A/L-A L-A/L-G L-A/S L-G/L-G L-G/S S/S
White, Non-Hispanic 7878 1982 (0.25) 537 (0.07) 3379 (0.43) 38 (< 0.01) 483 (0.06) 1449 (0.18)
White, Hispanic 981 207 (0.21) 52 (0.05) 411 (0.42) -- 58 (0.06) 251 (0.26)
Black, Non-Hispanic 3290 882 (0.27) 769 (0.23) 867 (0.26) 128 (0.04) 326 (0.10) 261 (0.08)
Black, Hispanic 90 19 (0.21) 15 (0.17) 31 (0.34) 2 (0.02) 7 (0.08) 14 (0.16)
Asian, Non-Hispanic 911 38 (0.04) 41 (0.05) 231 (0.25) 15 (0.02) 149 (0.16) 405 (0.44)
Asian, Hispanic 86 41 (0.08) 3 (0.06) 14 (0.26) -- 7 (0.13) 21 (0.40)
Native American, Non-Hispanic 273 61 (0.22) 10 (0.04) 127 (0.47) -- 12 (0.04) 62 (0.23)
Native American, Hispanic 126 24 (0.19) 5 (0.04) 49 (0.39) -- 5 (0.04) 43 (0.34)
Mixed/Other, Non-Hispanic 128 26 (0.20) 18 (0.14) 37 (0.29) -- 14 (0.11) 32 (0.25)
Mixed/Other, Hispanic 1074 194 (0.18) 47 (0.04) 481 (0.45) 5 (< 0.01) 60 (0.06) 285 (0.27)

Note: Not tabled are genotypes containing 103 ‘XL-alleles’: 57 (0.02) in Black, Non-Hispanic; 32 (0.04) in Asian, Non-Hispanic; 9 (< 0.01) European, Non-Hispanic; 2 (0.02) in Black, Hispanic; and 1 each among European-Hispanic, Asian-Hispanic, and Native American-Non-Hispanic.

HWE: White, Non-Hispanic: χ2 = 0.1697, df = 2, p = 0.9209; White, Hispanic: χ2 = 2.0234, df = 2, p = 0.3636; Black, Non-Hispanic: χ2 = 0.7165, df = 2, p = 0.6989; Black, Hispanic: χ2 = 0.1826, df = 2, p = 0.9127; Asian, Non-Hispanic: χ2 = 0.6745, df = 2, p = 0.7137; Asian, Hispanic: χ2 = 32.1833, df = 2, p < 0.0001; Native American, Non-Hispanic: χ2 = 0.0368, df = 2, p = 0.9817; Native American, Hispanic: χ2 = 1.8312, df = 2, p = 0.4002; Mixed/Other, Non-Hispanic: χ2 = 1.3909, df = 2, p = 0.4988; Mixed/Other, Hispanic: χ2 = 0.0489, df = 2, p = 0.9758.