Table 8. Genotype distribution of CEL VNTR lengths for alcoholic liver cirrhosis (ALC) patients and controls from the United Kingdom.
| Genotypes of pooled lengthsa | Frequency | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALC | Controls | P-valueb | Odds ratio | 95% CI | |
| (n = 91) | (n = 91) | ||||
| SS | 0.088 (8) | 0.121 (11) | 0.48 | 0.70 | 0.27–1.83 |
| SN | 0.385 (35) | 0.450 (41) | 0.37* | 0.76 | 0.42–1.38 |
| NN | 0.473 (43) | 0.330 (30) | 0.07 | 1.82 | 1.00–3.32 |
| NL | - | 0.033 (3) | - | - | - |
| LL | - | - | - | - | - |
| SL | 0.022 (2) | 0.044 (4) | 0.68 | 0.49 | 0.09–2.74 |
| Duplication allelesc | 0.033 (3) | 0.022 (2) | 1.00 | 1.52 | 0.25–9.30 |
| Sum | 1.000 (91) | 1.000 (91) | - | - | - |
a Short (S), 4–15 repeats; Normal (N), 16 repeats; Long (L), 17–23 repeats
b P-value calculated by two-tailed Fisher`s exact test or Pearson’s Chi-square test (*) with one degree of freedom
c Genotypes of duplication alleles are listed in Table 14