Research Article

Modulation of Colorectal Cancer Risk by Polymorphisms in 51Gln/His, 64Ile/Val, and 148Asp/Glu of APEX Gene; 23Gly/Ala of XPA Gene; and 689Ser/Arg of ERCC4 Gene

Table 4

The distribution of genotypes and allele frequencies and the analysis of the odds ratio (OR) for 23Gly/Ala polymorphism of XPA gene in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) and the control group.

Genotype/allelePatients ()Controls ()OR (95% CI)

Gly/Gly31951 (ref)
Gly/Ala2631505.373 (3.418–8.446)<0.0001
Ala/Ala16590.831 (0.419–1.649)0.597
Gly3253401 (ref)
Ala2952681.152 (0.920–1.442)0.218

Genotype distribution in the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, χ2 = 0.988.
Values set in italics denote statistical significance.