Research Article

CTLA-4 +49A/G Polymorphism Increases the Susceptibility to Bladder Cancer in Chinese Han Participants: A Case-Control Study

Table 4

The associations between CTLA-4 +49A/G polymorphism and clinical characteristics of bladder cancer.

CharacteristicsGenotype distributions
AAAGGG

Tumor grade
 High/low139/6777/5011/1088/60
 OR (95% CI); value1.00 (reference)0.74 (0.47-1.18); 0.2040.53 (0.22-1.31); 0.1640.71 (0.46-1.10); 0.121
Tumor size
 ≥3/<342/16439/8811/1050/98
 OR (95% CI); value1.00 (reference)1.73 (1.04-2.87); 0.0334.30 (1.71-10.79); 0.0011.99 (1.23-3.22); 0.005
TNM stage
/96/11070/5711/1081/67
 OR (95% CI); value1.00 (reference)1.41 (0.90-2.19); 0.1311.26 (0.51-3.10); 0.6131.39 (0.90-2.12); 0.131
Tumor node metastasis
 Yes/no55/15141/8612/953/95
 OR (95% CI); value1.00 (reference)1.31 (0.81-2.12); 0.2743.66 (1.46-9.17); 0.0041.53 (0.97-2.42); 0.066
Distant metastasis
 M1/M012/1948/1193/1811/137
 OR (95% CI); value1.00 (reference)1.09 (0.43-2.74); 0.8602.69 (0.70-10.44); 0.1371.30 (0.56-3.03); 0.545
Histology
 Papillary/nonpapillary166/40106/2119/2125/23
 OR (95% CI); value1.00 (reference)1.22 (0.68-2.18); 0.5092.29 (0.51-10.23); 0.4141.31 (0.75-2.30); 0.347

Bold values are statistically significant ().