Table 9. Distribution of CEL VNTR lengths for alcoholic chronic pancreatitis (ACP) and alcoholic liver cirrhosis (ALC) patients from Germany.

		Length frequency
		ACP	ALC	P-valuea	Odds ratio	95% CI
		(n = 293)	(n = 127)
Number of VNTR repeats	9	-	0.004 (1)	-	-	-
	10	0.002 (1)	-	-	-	-
	11	0.010 (6)	0.012 (3)	1.00	0.86	0.22–3.49
	12	0.002 (1)	0.016 (4)	0.03	0.11	0.01–0.96
	13	0.054 (32)	0.066 (17)	0.52	0.81	0.44–1.48
	14	0.133 (79)	0.175 (45)	0.11*	0.72	0.49–1.08
	15	0.138 (82)	0.097 (25)	0.11	1.49	0.93–2.39
	16	0.624 (370)	0.584 (150)	0.27*	1.18	0.88–1.60
	17	0.030 (18)	0.043 (11)	0.41	0.70	0.33–1.50
	18	0.003 (2)	0.004 (1)	1.00	0.87	0.08–9.60
	21	0.002 (1)	-	-	-	-
	23	0.002 (1)	-	-	-	-
	Sum	1.000 (593)	1.000 (257)	-	-	-
Pooled VNTR lengths	Short (<16)	0.339 (201)	0.370 (95)	0.39*	0.87	0.64–1.19
	Normal (16)	0.624 (370)	0.584 (150)	0.27*	1.18	0.88–1.60
	Long (>16)	0.037 (22)	0.047 (12)	0.57	0.79	0.38–1.62
	Sum	1.000 (593)	1.000 (257)	-	-	-

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