Research Article

Associations between Extracellular Matrix Protein 1 Gene Polymorphism and Progression of Liver Disease

Table 6

Haplotype distributions between healthy controls and chronic HBV infection patients.

HaplotypeFrequencyχ2OR (95% CI)
Healthy controls (%)Chronic HBV infection (%)

rs3754217-rs3737240
G-C397 (67.7)931 (71.4)8.470.03731
G-T22 (3.8)28 (2.1)0.54 (0.31-0.96)
T-C52 (8.9)80 (6.1)0.64 (0.44-0.93)
T-T115 (19.6)265 (20.3)0.99 (0.77-1.27)

rs3834087-rs3754217-rs3737240
G-G-C395 (67.2)931 (71.4)17.20.00861
G-G-T22 (3.7)28 (2.6)0.54 (0.31-0.96)
G-T-C3 (0.5)4 (0.4)0.55 (0.12-2.49)
G-T-T115 (19.6)259 (19.8)0.95 (0.74-1.22)
D-G-C4 (0.7)0 (0.0)
D-T-C49 (8.3)76 (5.8)0.65 (0.45-0.96)
D-T-T0 (0.0)6 (0.3)

rs3834087’s GAG allele was simply marked with G; DEL allele was simply marked with D. CI, confidence interval; HBV, hepatitis B virus; OR, odda ratio.