Table 1.

Nucleotide sequence surrounding the target SNPs

SNP ID	Context sequence [VIC/FAM]	Position
rs2069952	GCACCCTCTCTGCACAGTCCCCTGA[C/T]CCTGACTGTCTATCCACAGTTCCTC	Intron 2
rs2069940	GTTTCAAAAAGATTGCTTTAGGTAA[C/G]CAATCATCTTCTGAGATTTATACAG	5′ UTR
rs867186	GCTGGTCCTGGGCGTCCTGGTGGGC[A/G]GTTTCATCATTGCTGGTGTGGCTGT	Exon 4

The first nucleotide in the brackets corresponds to the VIC allele and the second to the FAM allele. Oligonucleotide probes were purchased from Applied Biosystems

SNP single-nucleotide polymorphism, 5′UTR 5′ untranslated region