Length of Variable Numbers of Tandem Repeats in the Carboxyl Ester Lipase (CEL) Gene May Confer Susceptibility to Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis but Not Alcoholic Chronic Pancreatitis.

PLoS One · 2016 · PMC5089759 · PMID 27802312

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did not quite reach statistical significanceP = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

controls (57.6%), but the difference did not quite reach statistical significance ( P = 0.06; OR = 1.50; 95% CI = 0.98–2.29).

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borderline significanceno p-value reported

Additionally, 16 repeats were overrepresented in ALC patients from the UK in comparison to alcoholic CP patients and with borderline significance in comparison to controls.

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