Research Article

Association of Melatonin Pathway Gene’s Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Chinese Population

Table 6

Haplotype analysis of five SNPs in MTNR1a gene in SLE patients and healthy controls.

HaplotypeSLE ( (%))Controls ( (%))OR (95% CI)

rs10030173, rs2119882, rs2165667, rs4861722, rs6847693
CCTAT44.05 (0.045)27.21 (0.028)4.1350.0420311.650 (1.014, 2.686)
CTAGC341.42 (0.346)331.12 (0.337)0.2410.6234791.049 (0.866, 1.270)
CTAGT38.30 (0.039)19.92 (0.020)5.9830.0144661.962 (1.133, 3.400)
TCTAT135.01 (0.137)180.70 (0.184)8.0710.0045120.702 (0.549, 0.897)
TCTGT117.73 (0.119)118.09 (0.120)0.0010.9747850.996 (0.757, 1.309)
TTAGC217.53 (0.220)216.35 (0.220)0.0030.9549141.006 (0.811, 1.249)

SLE: systemic lupus erythematosus; SNPs: single-nucleotide polymorphisms; MTNR1a: melatonin receptor 1a; OR: odds ratio. Total , . All the haplotypes with a were ignored in the analysis.