Table 7

Results for GSTM1 and Autism Association Study. "Pearson" refers to Pearson's chi-square analysis of the case-control data. "Likelihood Ratio Test" refers to the 1-df test discussed in the text, in this case using the full information in Table 6. OR = Odds Ratio, RR = Relative Risk of homozygous deletion genotype relative (r1 in the text).

Method

Pearson

Likelihood Ratio Test


Chi-square

4.84

3.97

p

0.028

0.046

Effect Size (95% Conffidence Interval)

OR = 2.02 (1.03; 4.04)

RR = 1.85 (1.07; 3.30)

Null allele frequency

0.69

0.71


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