Table 5. Distribution of CEL VNTR lengths for alcoholic liver cirrhosis (ALC) patients and controls from Germany.

		Length frequency
		ALC	Controls	P-valuea	Odds ratio	95% CI
		(n = 127)	(n = 236)
Number of VNTR repeats	9	0.004 (1)	-	-	-	-
	10	-	0.004 (2)	-	-	-
	11	0.012 (3)	0.010 (5)	1.00	1.12	0.26–4.70
	12	0.016 (4)	0.010 (5)	0.73	1.50	0.40–5.61
	13	0.066 (17)	0.042 (20)	0.16	1.62	0.83–3.15
	14	0.175 (45)	0.117 (56)	0.03*	1.60	1.04–2.44
	15	0.097 (25)	0.170 (81)	0.008	0.53	0.33–0.85
	16	0.584 (150)	0.597 (285)	0.72*	0.94	0.69–1.29
	17	0.043 (11)	0.046 (22)	1.00	0.92	0.44–1.94
	18	0.004 (1)	0.002 (1)	1.00	1.86	0.12–29.85
	Sum	1.000 (257)	1.000 (477)	-	-	-
Pooled VNTR lengths	Short (<16)	0.370 (95)	0.352 (168)	0.64*	1.08	0.79–1.48
	Normal (16)	0.584 (150)	0.597 (285)	0.72*	0.94	0.69–1.29
	Long (>16)	0.047 (12)	0.048 (23)	1.00	0.97	0.47–1.98
	Sum	1.000 (257)	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