Table 2.
Genotypic and allelic frequencies of the rS9939609 polymorphism of the FTO gene in the Ribeirão Preto, Pelotas, and São Luís (RPS) Cohort of São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, 2019.
| Gene (SNP) | Genotype | Non-obese (%BF) |
Obese (%BF) |
p-Valuea | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N: 378 | GF (%) | N: 378 | GF (%) | |||
| TT | 146 | 38.62 | 153 | 40.48 | ||
| AT | 181 | 47.88 | 170 | 44.97 | 0.719 | |
| FTO (rs9939609) | AA | 51 | 13.49 | 55 | 14.55 | |
| Alleles | N: 378 | AF (%) | N: 378 | AF (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T | 473 | 62.57 | 480 | 63.16 | 0.812 | |
| Ag | 283 | 37.43 | 280 | 36.84 |
SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism; %BF, percentage of body fat; GF, genotypic frequency; FTO, fat mass and obesity-associated gene; AF, allelic frequency, risk allele for obesity.
a
Chi-squared test.