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. 2017 Aug 17;7:8529. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-07034-w

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics.

Characteristic Multi-ancestry Northwestern European ancestry
Training Sample Cortisol Sample Cortisone Sample Cortisol Sample Cortisone Sample
n 1565 1674 1656 867 862
Cortisol/Cortisone quantiles (in pg/mg)
25% 0.91 5.31 0.69 4.80
50% 1.65 7.78 1.28 6.61
75% 3.26 12.49 2.71 11.85
Hair Color (in %)
Sandy red 1 2 2 3 3
Red or Chestnut 1 1 1 2 2
Blond 30 26 26 47 46
Dark Blond 33 26 27 38 39
Brown 13 19 18 9 9
Dark Brown 10 15 15 1 1
Brownish black/Black 13 11 10 0 0
National origin (in %)
Dutch 65 58 59 90 90
Turkish 6 9 9 0 0
Surinamese 6 7 7 0 0
Other European 8 7 7 6 6
Moroccan 3 7 7 0 0
Cape Verde 2 3 3 0 0
Netherlands Antilles 2 2 2 0 0
African 2 2 2 1 1
American, Non-Western 2 2 2 1 1
Asian, Non-Western 3 2 2 0 0
Indonesian 0 1 1 0 0
Girls (in %) 49 51 52 48 49
Age (mean in years) 6.15 6.19 6.19 6.04 6.04
Corticosteroid use (in %) 8 8 9 9