Research Article

Assessing Candidate Gene nsSNPs for Phenotypic Differences in Double-Strand Break Repair Using Radiation-Induced H2A.X Foci

Table 3

Comparison of the number of foci at various time points (T0, before irradiation; T1, T3, T24, respectively, 1 hour, 3 hours, 24 hours, following irradiation.)

GenensSNPRatios of geometric means
T1/T0T3/T1T24/T0

PNKPrs37391864.650.671.25
BRCA1rs17999504.510.651.09
LIG4rs18053883.940.641.08
WRNrs13460443.830.641.11
ATMrs18000574.200.621.31
CONTROLS4.100.641.16

None of the ratios for any cell line panel representing SNPs was statistically significantly different from the corresponding ratio for controls. ( , t-tests comparing coefficients from a mixed model regression fitted separately to the base-2 logarithm of each ratio).