Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 12.
Published in final edited form as: Med. 2021 Jul 9;2(7):851–863.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2021.04.011

Table 2:

Characteristics of rs2642438 homozygous or heterozygous carriers compared with non-carriers in UKB.

Non carriers
(G/G)
n=227 685
Heterozygotes
(G/A)
n = 191 936
Homozygotes
(A/A)
n=40 591
p-Value
G/G vs
G/A
p-Value
G/G vs
A/A
aOR
G/G vs G/A
aOR
G/G vs A/A
Liver status
ALT ≥ULN, N(%) 15 531 (6.8) 11 999 (6.3) 2 211 (5.4) 1.3*10-13 2.7*10-25 0.91 [0.89-0.93] 0.78[0.74-0.82]
AST ≥ULN, N(%) 10 317 (4.5) 8 357 (4.4) 1 664 (4.1) .008 .00001 0.96[0.93-0.99] 0.90[0.85-0.95]
 
ICD10 coded diagnoses
Overall liver disease (K70-K76), N(%) 3 609 (1.59) 2 874 (1.50) 580 (1.43) .015 .010 0.94[0.89-0.99] 0.89[0.81-0.97]
Alcoholic liver disease (K70), N(%) 516 (0.23) 397 (0.21) 78 (0.19) .17 .16
Toxic liver disease (K71), N(%) 40 (0.02) 39 (0.02) 6 (0.01) .45 .48
Hepatic failure (K72), N(%) 258 (0.11) 177 (0.09) 41 (0.10) .050 .90
Chronic Hepatitis (K73), N(%) 78 (0.03) 68 (0.04) 14 (0.03) .80 .99
Fibrosis and cirrhosis (K74), N(%) 575 (0.25) 467 (0.24) 73 (0.18) .59 .007
Inflammatory liver diseases (K75), N(%) 481 (0.25) 404 (0.24) 80 (0.24) .85 .52
 NASH (K75.8), N(%) 170 (0.07) 129 (0.07) 19 (0.05) .32 .044
Other liver diseases (K76), N(%) 2 650 (1.16) 2 071 (1.08) 403 (0.99) .006 .001 0.92[0.87-0.98] 0.84[0.75-0.93]
 NAFLD (K76.0), N(%) 1 347 (0.59) 991 (0.52) 191 (0.47) .0004 .002 0.86[0.79-0.94] 0.78[0.67-0.91]
Malignant neoplasm of the liver and/or bile duct (C22), N(%) 268 (0.12) 200 (0.10) 35 (0.09) .17 .072
 
Survival
All-cause mortality, N(%) 14 045 (6) 12 061 (6) 2501 (6) .71 .35
Liver related death, N(%) 474 (0.21) 345 (0.18) 52 (0.13) .030 .001 0.86[0.74-0.99] 0.61[0.46-0.81]
Cardiovascular death, N(%) 2 734 (1.2) 2 338 (1.2) 544 (1.3) .63 .35

Quantitative measures are expressed as number of participants (N) and as relative frequencies (%). All multivariable analyses were adjusted for age, sex, BMI, and PC1-4). A FDR adjusted significance level of p <= 0.03 was used.