Table 2.

Genotype and Allele Frequencies of apo E Polymorphisms in Overweight/Obese and Control Groups

	Frequencies
	Overweight/obese (n = 282)	Controls (n = 172)	P
Genotype			0.168
E2E2	0.004 (1)	0.017 (3)
E2E3	0.163 (46)	0.093 (16)
E2E4	0.025 (7)	0.012 (2)
E3E3	0.660 (186)	0.715 (123)
E3E4	0.142 (40)	0.157 (27)
E4E4	0.007 (2)	0.006 (1)
Allele			0.351
E2	0.098 (55)	0.070 (24)
E3	0.812 (458)	0.840 (289)
E4	0.090 (51)	0.090 (31)

Numbers in parentheses indicate number of subjects with each genotype or number of alleles of each type.