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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Hum Hypertens. 2014 Feb 13;28(9):551–556. doi: 10.1038/jhh.2013.149

Table 3.

The genotype distributions and allele frequencies of the LEPR gene Lys109Arg, Gln223Arg and Lys656Asn polymorphisms in an obese and non-obese population

Genotype (frequency, %) P-valuea Allele (frequency, %) P-valueb
Lys109Arg
GG AG AA G A

Total 0.875 0.893
 Obese 545 (67.0) 243 (29.9) 26 (3.2) 1333 (81.9) 295 (18.1)
 Non-obese 325 (66.2) 152 (31.0) 14 (2.9) 802 (81.7) 180 (18.3)
Case 0.415 0.908
 Obese 395 (67.6) 171 (29.3) 18 (3.1) 961 (82.3) 207 (17.7)
 Non-obese 152 (65.8) 75 (32.5) 4 (1.7) 379 (82.0) 83 (82.0)
Control 0.909 0.849
 Obese 150 (65.2) 72 (31.3) 8 (3.5) 372 (80.9) 88 (19.1)
 Non-obese 173 (66.5) 77 (29.6) 10 (3.8) 423 (81.3) 97 (18.7)

Gln223Arg
Total 0.895 0.728
 Obese 608 (75.0) 189 (23.3) 14 (1.7) 1405 (86.6) 217 (13.4)
 Non-obese 360 (73.9) 119 (24.4) 8 (1.6) 839 (86.1) 135 (13.9)
Case 0.583 0.943
 Obese 438 (75.4) 136 (23.4) 7 (1.2) 1012 (87.1) 150 (12.9)
 Non-obese 170 (74.9) 56 (24.7) 1 (0.4) 396 (87.2) 58 (12.8)
Control 0.934 0.915
 Obese 170 (73.9) 53 (23.0) 7 (23.0) 393 (85.4) 67 (14.6)
 Non-obese 190(73.1) 43 (85.2) 7 (2.7) 443 (85.2) 77 (14.8)

Lys656Asn
GG GC CC G C

Total 0.407 0.658
 Obese 693 (87.6) 95 (12.0) 3 (0.4) 1481 (93.6) 101 (6.4)
 Non-obese 415 (88.1) 56 (11.9) 0 886 (94.1) 56 (5.9)
Case 0.440 0.515
 Obese 497 (87.2) 71 (12.5) 2 (0.4) 1065 (93.4) 75 (6.6)
 Non-obese 187 (85.0) 33 (15.0) 0 407 (92.5) 33 (7.5)
Control 0.464 0.369
 Obese 196(88.7) 24 (10.9) 1 (0.5) 416 (94.1) 26 (5.9)
 Non-obese 228 (90.8) 23 (4.6) 0 479 (95.4) 23 (4.6)
a

P-value of the comparison of the additive genetic model using the generalized linear model.

b

P-value of the comparison of allelic frequencies.