Influence of the hTERT rs2736100 polymorphism on telomere length in gastric cancer

Table 2 Genotype and allele distribution of rs2736100 gene polymorphism in gastric cancer patients and controls

	Patients(n = 243),n (%)	Controls(n = 246),n (%)	Crude OR (95%CI)	Adjusted1 OR (95%CI)
CC	102 (42.0)	86 (35.0)	1.00	1.00
CA	107 (44.0)	122 (49.6)	0.739 (0.502-1.089)	0.741 (0.447-1.228)
AA	34 (14.0)	38 (15.4)	0.754 (0.438-1.300)	0.811 (0.373-1.760)
C:A allele frequency2	311:175 (0.640)	294:198 (0.598)
Trend test3			P = 0.1501	P = 0.3454

¹Adjusted for age (in year) and sex;

²Two-sided χ² test: for allele frequencies, P = 0.1727; for genotype distribution, P = 0.2797;

³Calculated in the logistic regression model using the number of A alleles in the genotypes as a continuous variable.