Table 3

Heterozygotes for the MC4R 103Ile-allele and cachexia status (as defined in Methods)

Patients with
Cachexia
N = 107 (21)
[102]
No cachexia
N = 402 (79)
[387]
Total
N = 509
[489]

Heterozygotes for the 103Ile-allele
2 [0]
23 [23]
25 [23]
No Heterozygotes for the 103Ile-allele
105 [102]
379 [364]
484 [466]

Numbers in square brackets denote the number of patients without early leucaemic preliminary stages.

Numbers in parentheses denote the particular percentage.

Fisher's exact test, two sided, p-value = 0.13 [0.0068]

Knoll et al. BMC Cancer 2008 8:85   doi:10.1186/1471-2407-8-85