Table 1. Proportion of glycan feature variability in 14 countries explained by linear mixed model, with age and sex defined as fixed effects and country of residence as a random effect.
IgG subclass | Glycan feature | Percentage of glycan trait variability explained by country of residence (%) | Percentage of glycan trait variability explained by age (%) | Percentage of glycan trait variability explained by sex (%) | Country of residence P value |
Agalactosylation | 21.4 | 18.3 | 0.9 | 1.03 × 10-111 | |
Monogalactosylation | 38.0 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 7.69 × 10-193 | |
IgG1 | Digalactosylation | 18.6 | 21.7 | 1.1 | 3.51 × 10-98 |
Sialylation | 10.8 | 13.2 | 0.6 | 1.27 × 10-54 | |
Bisecting GlcNAc | 18.6 | 17.5 | 0.0 | 9.28 × 10-110 | |
Agalactosylation | 12.8 | 23.9 | 0.9 | 7.18 × 10-62 | |
Monogalactosylation | 20.8 | 7.6 | 0.1 | 3.34 × 10-94 | |
IgG2 | Digalactosylation | 10.4 | 27.5 | 1.1 | 2.70 × 10-54 |
Sialylation | 6.5 | 18.2 | 0.5 | 1.22 × 10-27 | |
Bisecting GlcNAc | 12.4 | 11.9 | 0.1 | 3.66 × 10-64 | |
Agalactosylation | 20.5 | 13.7 | 0.4 | 1.32 × 10-93 | |
Monogalactosylation | 20.8 | 2.6 | 0.1 | 1.30 × 10-78 | |
IgG4 | Digalactosylation | 18.2 | 14.1 | 0.8 | 1.28 × 10-86 |
Sialylation | 15.4 | 9.7 | 0.5 | 6.44 × 10-75 | |
Bisecting GlcNAc | 7.6 | 15.7 | 0.6 | 2.01 × 10-37 |
Displayed values represent percentage (%) of glycan trait variability explained by country, age and sex.