highly significantp=0.001
However, when the data were analyzed along the lines of gender a highly significant difference was observed between the genotype distribution of the male POAG and control samples (χ 2 =13.2 [p=0.001]; Table 1 ), while no significant difference was observed in the case of the females (χ 2 =2.93 [p>0.05]; Table 1 ).