Research Article
The Vitamin D Receptor (VDR) Gene Polymorphisms in Turkish Brain Cancer Patients
Table 1
General demographic informations and parameters of patients and control groups.
| | Parameters | Meningioma cases () | Glioma () | Controls () |
| | Age (years) (mean ± SD) | | | | | Gender (%) | | | | | Male | 18 (40.9%) | 32 (57.1%) | 51 (41.8%) | | Female | 26 (59.1%) | 24 (42.9%) | 71 (58.2%) | | Histological characteristic of tumors | | | | | Astrocytoma (%) | | 11 (19.6%) | | | Glioblastoma multiforme (%) | | 22 (39.3%) | | | Oligodendroglioma (%) | | 8 (14.3%) | | | Oligoastrocytomas (%) | | 6 (10.7%) | | | *Others (%) | | 9 (16.1%) | |
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Values as average ± standard deviation. *Ependymoma, hemangioblastoma, paraganglioma, and so forth.
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