Table 3. d3-GHR Gene Polymorphism Genotype of Variable Populations.

Study	Population	State of disease	Number	Genotype, %
				fl/fl	d3/fl	d3/d3	d3/fl+d3/d3
This study	Korean	Acromegaly	30	86.7	13.3	0	13.3
Mercado et al. [7]	Mexican	Acromegaly	148	45.9	21.6	32.4	54.0
Kamenicky et al. [17]	French	Acromegaly	105	51.4	29.5	19.0	48.5
Bianchi et al. [16]	Italy	Acromegaly	84	52.4	29.8	17.9	47.7
Montefusco et al. [14]	Italy	Acromegaly	76	59.2	31.4	14.3	45.7
Kang et al. [18]	Korean	Healthy control	125	73.6	19.2	7.2	27.4
Shen et al. [19]	Chinese	Healthy control	441	74.6	22.2	3.2	25.4

d3-GHR, growth hormone receptor exon 3 deletion; fl, full length.