Research Article

Prevalence of Catalase (-21 A/T) Gene Variant in South Indian (Tamil) Population

Table 2

Prevalence of the catalase gene -21 A/T polymorphism in healthy controls.

CountryEthnic populationNumber of subjects Genotype frequencyT allele frequency
A/AA/TT/T

IndiaSouth Indian  
(present study)
100723700.82
Brazil [24]Brazilian12418.442.439.20.604
Finland [11]Finnish2451848340.58
Brazil [25]Brazilian1352239390.57
Czech Republic [15]Czechs1803748150.40
China [5]Chinese8483256120.40
China [2]Chinese386543880.272
New Zealand [16]Europeans1904842100.31