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. 2019 Jul 23;12:1201–1212. doi: 10.2147/DMSO.S205379

Table 1.

The genotypic and allelic distributions of MTHFR C677T for cases and controls

First author Year Country Ethnicity Age range Genotype distribution Allele frequency P-value HWE Number of cases/controls
Cases Controls Cases Controls
CC CT TT CC CT TT C T C T
Glueck24 2003 America White Adults 13 12 3 5 5 0 38 18 15 5 0.292 28/10
Terruzzi9 2007 Italy White Adults 18 54 12 14 33 5 90 78 61 43 0.026 84/52
Lewis(BWHHS)11 2008 UK White Adults 360 410 112 1165 1086 283 1130 634 3416 1652 0.214 882/2543
Lewis(ALSPAC for women)11 2008 UK White Adults 163 155 38 2707 2713 715 481 231 8127 4143 0.375 356/6135
Lewis(ALSPAC for children)11 2008 UK White Children 115 93 25 2155 2190 552 323 143 6500 3294 0.902 233/4897
Lewis(CCHS)11 2008 Denmark White Adults 588 574 107 3812 3356 736 1750 788 10,980 4828 0.946 1269/7904
Settin25 2009 Saudi Asian Adults 89 34 5 69 36 5 212 44 174 46 0.912 128/110
Tavakkoly Bazzaz26 2010 Iran Asian Adults 44 21 9 113 80 14 109 39 306 108 0.975 74/207
Gara28 2011 Tunisian African Children 15 14 2 9 12 1 44 18 30 14 0.228 31/22
Bokor27 2011 France White Children 97 99 17 130 154 33 293 133 414 220 0.2 213/317
Tabassum30 2012 Indian Asian Children 290 144 20 581 218 31 724 184 1380 280 0.068 454/830
Yin31 2012 China Asian Adults 354 341 56 471 441 66 1049 453 1383 573 0.006 751/978
Chauhan29 2012 Indian Asian Adults 348 185 29 272 148 16 881 243 692 180 0.451 562/436
Hernandez-Guerrero32 2013 Mexico Mestizo Adults 18 38 19 15 28 10 74 76 58 48 0.63 75/53
Fan33 2015 China Asian Adults 115 244 158 160 375 206 474 560 695 787 0.662 517/741
Chedraui34 2016 Ecuador White Adults 51 43 17 35 39 7 145 77 109 53 0.399 111/81
Kupcinskiene35 2016 Lithuania White Adults 156 135 28 159 129 15 447 191 447 159 0.082 319/303
Shen36 2016 Canada White Adults 190 182 51 181 212 53 562 284 574 318 0.447 423/446
Zhi37 2016 China Asian Adults 287 633 434 198 438 249 1207 1501 834 936 0.838 1354/885
Fu38 2018 China Asian Children 121 364 273 531 1353 861 606 910 2415 3075 0.99 758/2745

Abbreviations: MTHFR, methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase; HWE, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test; The P-value for HWE testing for controls is shown; BWHHS, British Women’s Heart and Health Study; ALSPAC, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children women cohort study; CCHS, Copenhagen City Heart Study.