Table 4 The frequency of short rare Boris-MS2 alleles in controls and lung cancer cases

From: A polymorphic minisatellite region of BORIS regulates gene expression and its rare variants correlate with lung cancer susceptibility

  

Common+long rare alleles

Short rare alleles

  
 

No. of alleles

14

15

16

17

18

Total

10

13

Total

OR (95% CI)

P-value

Controls

 Male

652 (%)

392 (60.1)

250 (38.3)

2 (0.3)

1 (0.2)

4 (0.6)

649 (99.5)

1

2

3 (0.5)

1 (reference)

—

 Female

528 (%)

331 (62.7)

187 (35.4)

1 (0.2)

0 (0.0)

1 (0.2)

520 (98.5)

4

4

8 (1.5)

1 (reference)

—

 Total

1180 (%)

723 (61.3)

437 (37.0)

3 (0.3)

1 (0.1)

5 (0.4)

1169 (99.1)

5

6

11 (0.9)

1 (reference)

 

Lung cancer cases

 Male

342 (%)

219 (64.0)

113 (33.0)

3 (0.9)

0 (0.0)

1 (0.3)

336 (98.2)

1

5

6 (1.8)

3.86 (0.96–15.54)

0.041*

 Female

70 (%)

47 (67.2)

19 (27.1)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

1 (1.4)

67 (95.7)

1

2

3 (4.3)

2.91 (0.75–11.24)

0.105

 Total

412 (%)

266 (64.6)

132 (32.0)

3 (0.7)

0 (0.0)

2 (0.5)

403 (97.8)

2

7

9 (2.2)

2.37 (0.98–5.77)

0.049*

  1. Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio. *P<0.05.
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