Table 1. Distribution of CEL VNTR lengths for alcoholic chronic pancreatitis (ACP) patients and controls from Germany.

		Length frequency
		ACP	Controls	P-valuea	Odds ratio	95% CI
		(n = 293)	(n = 236)
Number of VNTR repeats	10	0.002 (1)	0.004 (2)	0.59	0.40	0.04–4.45
	11	0.010 (6)	0.010 (5)	1.00	0.96	0.29–3.18
	12	0.002 (1)	0.010 (5)	0.09	0.16	0.02–1.41
	13	0.054 (32)	0.042 (20)	0.39	1.30	0.74–2.31
	14	0.133 (79)	0.117 (56)	0.44*	1.16	0.80–1.67
	15	0.138 (82)	0.170 (81)	0.15*	0.79	0.56–1.10
	16	0.624 (370)	0.597 (285)	0.38*	1.12	0.87–1.43
	17	0.030 (18)	0.046 (22)	0.20	0.65	0.34–1.22
	18	0.003 (2)	0.002 (1)	1.00	1.61	0.15–17.82
	21	0.002 (1)	-	-	-	-
	23	0.002 (1)	-	-	-	-
	Sum	1.000 (593)	1.000 (477)	-	-	-
Pooled VNTR lengths	Short (<16)	0.339 (201)	0.352 (168)	0.65*	0.94	0.73–1.22
	Normal (16)	0.624 (370)	0.597 (285)	0.38*	1.12	0.87–1.43
	Long (>16)	0.037 (22)	0.048 (23)	0.44	0.76	0.42–1.38
	Sum	1.000 (593)	1.000 (477)	-	-	-

^a P-value calculated by two-tailed Fisher`s exact test or Pearson’s Chi-square test (*) with one degree of freedom