Characterisation of a functional intronic polymorphism in the human growth hormone (GHI) gene

Table 2 Comparison of GH1 gene expression between eight different allele combinations involving four different SNPs from the GH1 gene region

	-278	-57	+1169	+2103	Expression^a	SEM	pvalue versus 1	pvalue versus 2	pvalue (TC versus AT)
1	G	T	T	C	1.0000	0.014	-	0.033	0.033
2	G	T	A	T	0.9597	0.012	0.033	-
3	T	G	T	C	0.9387	0.026	0.047	0.466	0.611
4	T	G	A	T	0.9540	0.015	0.029	0.759
5	G	G	T	C	1.0088	0.022	0.739	0.061	0.194
6	G	G	A	T	0.9574	0.022	0.114	0.928
7	T	T	T	C	1.0644	0.008	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
8	T	T	A	T	0.9371	0.012	0.002	0.184

^aGH1 expression levels relative to 1. P values exhibiting statistically significant difference (< 0.05) are shown in bold

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