Table 5 of Jia, Mol Vis 2009; 15:89-98.


Table 5. Allele frequencies of MYOC, OPTN, and APOE variants in southern and northern Chinese.


Location
Sequence
change
Codon
change
Allele frequency in HTG patients (%) Comparison
(p value)
Allele frequency in controls (%) Comparison
(p value)
Southern* (n=588) Northern (n=352) Southern (n=562) Northern (n=400)
MYOC
Promoter −83G>A - 37 (6.3) 16 (4.5) 0.26 50 (8.9) 30 (7.5) 0.44
Exon 1 c. 227 G>A R76K 38 (6.5) 13 (3.7) 0.07 51 (9.1) 28 (7.0) 0.25
Intron 2 IVS2+35A>G - 119 (20.2) 69 (19.6) 0.81 91 (16.2) 84 (21.0) 0.057
OPTN
Exon 5 c.603 T>A M98K 100 (17.0) 39 (11.1) 0.013 88 (15.7) 48 (12) 0.11
Exon 16 c.1944 G>A R545Q 21 (3.6) 12 (3.0) 0.9 19 (3.4) 13 (3.25) 0.91
Intron 5 IVS5+38T>G - 73 (12.4) 118 (33.5) 3.8×10–15 29 (5.2) 121 (30.25) 4.0×10−26
Intron 8 IVS8–53T>C - 21 (3.6) 27 (7.7) 0.006 12 (2.1) 24 (6.0) 0.002
Intron 15 IVS15+10G>A - 9 (1.5) 8 (2.3) 0.41 8 (1.4) 7 (1.75) 0.69
APOE
Promoter −491A>T - 28 (4.8) 8 (2.3) 0.054 15 (2.7) 13 (3.25) 0.6
Promoter −427 T>C - 5 (0.9) 25 (7.1) 1.3×10–7 5 (0.9) 36 (9.0) 8.4×10−10
Promoter −219 T>G - 222 (37.8) 93 (26.4) 0.00037 187 (33.3) 117 (29.25) 0.19
Exon 4 ε2/ε4/ε3 R158C, C112R 63/39/486 (10.7/6.6/82.7) 34/38/280 (9.7/10.8/79.5) 0.076 48/52/462 (8.5/9.3/82.2) 35/36/329 (8.8/9.0/82.2) 0.99