Table 1.

The frequency of SNP for of individual polymorphisms of MMP-2 and MMP-9 for general population and the ethnically groups.

Frequency of Alternative Allele among Population (=1−the Frequency of the Reference Allele)
Gelatinase	SNP	Alternative Allele	Total	All Africans	African American	Individuals with African Ancestry	Asian Individuals Excluding South Asian	East Asian	South Asian	Asian Individiuals Excluding South or East Asian	European	Latin American Individiuals with Afro-Caribbean Ancestry	Latin American Individiuals with Mostly European and Native American Ancestry
MMP-2
	−1306 C/T (rs243865) [38]	T	0.20139	0.0597	0.0608	0.025	0.073	0.055	0.129	0.12	0.24479	0.204	0.2152
	−1575 G/A (rs243866) [38]	A	0.229833	0.0562	0.0574	0.022	0.087	0.079	0.1594	0.112	0.242161	0.203	0.2182
MMP-9
	−1562 C/T (rs3918242) [38]	T	0.17402	0.2275	0.2330	0.070	0.226	0.267	0.327	0.04	0.16158	0.110	0.084
	+279 A/G (rs17576) [38]	G	0.355297	0.34381	0.34448	0.324	0.755	0.755	0.4824	0.755	0.355310	0.3325	0.2256