Table 2.

Genotype and allele frequencies of the -565 C/T gene polymorphism in HA and control group

	HA group (n=101)	Control group (n=95)	p-value *
Genotypes
CC n (%)	48 (47.5)	62(65.3)
CT n (%)	42 (41.6)	29(30.5)	0.027 *
TT n (%)	11 (10.9)	4(4.2)
Alleles
C allele n (%)	138 (68.3)	153 (80.5)	0.002†
T allele n (%)	64 (31.7)	37 (19.5)

n: number of individuals;

^*p<0.05,

^†p<0.01

a: χ²-test for distributions of genotype and allele frequencies between the HA and control group.