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Heterozygotes for the MC4R 103Ile-allele and cachexia status (as defined in Methods) |
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| Patients with |
Cachexia N = 107 (21) [102] |
No cachexia N = 402 (79) [387] |
Total N = 509 [489] |
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| Heterozygotes for the 103Ile-allele |
2 [0] |
23 [23] |
25 [23] |
| No Heterozygotes for the 103Ile-allele |
105 [102] |
379 [364] |
484 [466] |
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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 |
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