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. 2017 Nov 15;165(2):299–308. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23351

Table 3.

The association between ancestry and dental development (dental age)

Model 1 Model 2
β 95%CI p‐value β 95%CI p‐value
a. Geographic ancestry
Dutch (reference)
Cape Verdean 0.11 −0.03, 0.24 0.122 0.01 −0.12, 0.15 0.845
Moroccan 0.20 0.09, 0.30 <0.001 0.18 0.07, 0.28 0.001
Turkish 0.27 0.18, 0.37 <0.001 0.22 0.12, 0.32 <0.001
Dutch Antillean 0.35 0.21, 0.50 <0.001 0.27 0.12, 0.41 <0.001
Surinamese Creole 0.24 0.10. 0.38 0.001 0.16 0.03, 0.30 0.020
Surinamese Hindustani 0.10 −0.04, 0.24 0.155 0.10 −0.03, 0.24 0.137
b. Genetic ancestry
1. Total (N = 2,786)
European content of ancestry −0.37 −0.49, −0.25 <0.001 −0.32 −0.44, −0.20 <0.001
African content of ancestry 0.41 0.27, 0.55 <0.001 0.29 0.16, 0.43 0.001
Asian content of ancestry 0.19 −0.01, 0.39 0.066 0.28 0.09, 0.48 0.005
2. Europeans (N = 2,473)
European content of ancestry −0.69 −0.93, −0.45 <0.001 −0.63 −0.87, −0.40 <0.001
African content of ancestry 0.68 0.38, 0.99 <0.001 0.57 0.27, 0.87 <0.001
Asian content of ancestry 0.64 0.27, 1.01 0.001 0.62 0.26, 0.98 0.001

Abbreviations: β = regression coefficients; CI = confidence interval; genetic contents of ancestry are investigated as continuous variables; Significant p‐values are presented in italic font.