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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 3.

Genotype Frequencies for triallelic coding of 5HTTLPR and rs25531 by ethnicity in the Rochester Youth and Development Study (RYDS).

Genotype (N, %)

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 85 16 (0.19) 3 (0.03) 34 (0.40) 1 (0.01) 3 (0.04) 28 (0.33)
White, Hispanic 11 1 (0.09) 1 (0.09) 5 (0.45) -- 1 (0.09) 3 (0.27)
Black, Non-Hispanic 509 140 (0.28) 98 (0.19) 131 (0.26) 32 (0.06) 52 (0.10) 32 (0.06)
Black, Hispanic 38 10 (0.26) 6 (0.16) 14 (0.37) -- 3 (0.08) 3 (0.08)
Hispanic 58 11 (0.19) 6 (0.10) 20 (0.34) 2 (0.03) 8 (0.14) 11 (0.19)
Mixed 83 16 (0.19) 15 (0.18) 28 (0.34) 1 (0.01) 8 (0.10) 13 (0.16)

Note: Not tabled are containing 27 ‘XL-alleles’: 23 (0.05) in Black, Non-Hispanic, 2 (0.05) in Black, Hispanic, and 2 (0.02) among those endorsing Mixed ethnicity.

HWE: White, Non-Hispanic, χ2 = 0.8093, df = 2, p = 0.6672; White, Hispanic, χ2 = 0.2000, df = 2, p = 0.9048; Black, Non-Hispanic, χ2 = 1.5163, df = 2, p = 0.4685; Black, Hispanic, χ2 = 0.4560, df = 2, p = 0.7961; Hispanic, χ2 = 1.998, df = 2, p = 0.3681; Mixed, χ2 = 0.2023, df = 2, p = 0.9037.