Association Analysis of Genetic Variants with Type 2 Diabetes in a Mongolian Population in China

Table 1

Clinical characteristics of study population.

Traits	Controls^a	Cases	value for normalized trait value^b
Samples ()	469	497
Sex (male/female)	168/301	214/283
Smoking (%)	22.2	31.6
Drinking (%)	38.6	27.2
Age (years)	40.5 ± 15.8	54.3 ± 10.1
BMI (kg/m^2)	24.0 ± 4.8	26.1 ± 4.0	<0.001
WC (cm)	81.7 ± 14.5	92.0 ± 11.6	<0.001
TC (mmol/L)	4.6 ± 1.2	5.4 ± 1.2	<0.001
TG (mmol/L)	1.9 ± 1.5	3.1 ± 2.9	<0.001
HDL-C (mmol/L)	1.3 ± 0.3	1.4 ± 1.0	0.775
LDL-C (mmol/L)	2.7 ± 0.9	3.2 ± 1.0	<0.001

Mean ± SD.
^bStudent’s -test. BMI: body mass index; WC: waist circumference; TC: total cholesterol; TG: triglyceride; HDL-C: high density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C: low density lipoprotein cholesterol.