Association of Polymorphisms of the Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts Gene with Schizophrenia in a Han Chinese Population

Table 3

Clinical characteristics of the patients with schizophrenia and distribution by genotypes of the three SNPs.

Parameters	G82S		value	-374T/A		value	-429T/C		p value
	GG	GS + SS		TT	TA + AA		TT	TC + CC
	Age at onset (years)				0.926					0.946			0.228
Duration of illness (years)			0.742			0.475			0.768
Years of education (years)			0.405			0.58			0.725
PANSS total score			0.651			0.131			0.416
P subscore			0.041			0.043			0.383
N subscore			0.648			0.774			0.802
G subscore			0.716			0.096			0.502
Family psychotic history	75 (16.4%)	45 (13.0%)	0.184	91 (14.8%)	29 (15.4%)	0.826	106 (15.1%)	14 (13.9%)	0.748
Age at onset (years)
<18	84 (18.3%)	67 (19.4%)	0.713	115 (18.7%)	36 (19.1%)	0.883	131 (18.6%)	20 (19.8%)	0.779
≥18	374 (81.7%)	279 (80.6%)		501 (81.3%)	152 (80.9%)		572 (81.4%)	81 (80.2%)

Values are the mean ± SD; PANSS: Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale.