Table 6. Distribution of CEL VNTR lengths for alcoholic liver cirrhosis (ALC) patients and controls from the United Kingdom.

		Length frequency
		ALC	Controls	P-valuea	Odds ratio	95% CI
		(n = 91)	(n = 91)
Number of VNTR	10	0.005 (1)	-	-	-	-
	12	0.011 (2)	0.005 (1)	1.00	2.00	0.18–22.25
repeats	13	0.043 (8)	0.076 (14)	0.20	0.55	0.23–1.34
	14	0.103 (19)	0.158 (29)	0.12	0.61	0.33–1.14
	15	0.151 (28)	0.147 (27)	1.00	1.04	0.59–1.84
	16	0.670 (124)	0.576 (106)	0.06*	1.50	0.98–2.29
	17	0.016 (3)	0.038 (7)	0.22	0.42	0.11–1.64
	Sum	1.000 (185)	1.000 (184)	-	-	-
Pooled VNTR lengths	Short (<16)	0.314 (58)	0.386 (71)	0.15*	0.73	0.47–1.12
	Normal (16)	0.670 (124)	0.576 (106)	0.06*	1.50	0.98–2.29
	Long (>16)	0.047 (3)	0.038 (7)	0.22	0.42	0.11–1.64
	Sum	1.000 (185)	1.000 (184)	-	-	-

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