Colonic Transit Time and Gut Peptides in Adult Patients with Slow and Normal Colonic Transit Constipation

Table 5

Genotypes frequency distributions of the neurotensin system SNPs in healthy controls and constipated patients categorized according to the time of colonic transit.

	NTS rs1800832 A/G		NTSR1 rs6090453 C/G
	AA	AG	CC	CG	GG
	HC ()	20 (100%)	0 (0%)	8 (40%)	10 (50%)	2 (10%)
NTC ()	22 (71%)	9 (29%)	8 (26%)	17 (55%)	6 (19%)
STC ()	18 (90%)	2 (10%)	5 (25%)	11 (55%)	4 (20%)

Absolute numbers and frequencies (in parentheses). : test. HC: healthy controls; NTC: normal transit constipation; STC: slow transit constipation.