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Table 2 Characteristics of APOE ϵ2/ϵ3/ϵ4 polymorphism

From: Meta-analyses between 18 candidate genetic markers and overweight/obesity

Year

Author

Race

Case/Controls (n)

Genotypes (case/controls, n)

Alleles (case/controls, n)

    

ϵ2/ϵ2

ϵ2/ϵ3

ϵ2/ϵ4

ϵ3/ϵ3

ϵ3/ϵ4

ϵ4/ϵ4

ϵ2

ϵ3

ϵ4

2003

Guerra A

Caucasian

31/81

0/0

6/4

0/0

63/20

13/7

0/0

6/4

145/51

13/7

2008

Srivastava N

Asian Indian

159/278

0/1

17/18

2/6

90/198

41/55

9/0

19/30

238/469

61/61

2010

Ergun MA

Asian Chinese

38/42

0/2

2/0

12/4

8/9

16/26

0/1

14/8

34/44

28/32

2012

Zhang J

Asian Chinese

282/172

1/3

46/16

7/2

186/123

40/27

2/1

55/24

458/289

51/31

2012

Zarkesh M

Asian Iran

463/370

1/1

48/38

6/7

348/268

63/53

3/3

56/47

807/627

75/66

Module

Case/Controls (n)

Model selected

Heterogeneity (I2)%

P value

OR (95% CI)

       

ϵ2/ϵ2/ϵ3/ϵ3

954/813

Fixed

0

0.12

0.35 (0.09-1.32)

       

ϵ2/ϵ3ϵ3/ϵ3

814/694

Fixed

48

0.07

1.33 (0.98-1.82)

       

ϵ2/ϵ4/ϵ3/ϵ3

695/618

Fixed

0

0.92

0.96 (0.45-2.05)

       

ϵ3/ϵ4/ϵ3/ϵ3

868/786

Fixed

28

0.7

1.05 (0.82-1.35)

       

ϵ4/ϵ4/ϵ3/ϵ3

695/618

Random

63

0.54

1.89 (0.25-14.46)

       

ϵ2/ϵ3

1832/1593

Fixed

23

0.26

1.16 (0.90-1.51)

       

ϵ4/ϵ3

1910/1681

Random

65

0.54

1.13 (0.77-1.66

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