Table 1 Frequency distribution of IL-17A and IL-17F genotypes among participants gender, age groups and participants ethnicity
IL-17 A genotypes no. (%) | IL-17 F genotypes no. (%) | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AA | AG | GG | P* | AA | GA | GG | P* | ||
Gender | |||||||||
Male | 127 (35.8) | 215 (60.6) | 13 (3.7) | 0.113 | 298 (83.9) | 42 (11.8) | 15 (4.2) | 0.136 | 355 (49.5) |
Female | 147 (40.6) | 194 (53.6) | 21 (5.8) | 322 (89.0) | 28 (7.7) | 12 (3.3) | 362 (50.5) | ||
Age group | |||||||||
1–20 years | 71 (37.8) | 108 (57.4) | 9 (4.8) | 0.977 | 166 (88.3) | 15 (8.0) | 7 (3.7) | 0.231 | 188 (26.2) |
21– 40 years | 110 (39.1) | 160 (56.9) | 11 (3.9) | 231 (82.2) | 37 (13.2) | 13 (4.6) | 281 (39.2) | ||
41–60 years | 54 (40.0) | 74 (54.8) | 7 (5.2) | 118 (87.4) | 13 (9.6) | 4 (3.0) | 135 (18.8) | ||
61–80 years | 9 (30.0) | 19 (63.3) | 2 (6.7) | 29 (96.7) | 1 (3.3) | 0 (0.0) | 30 (4.2) | ||
81–100 years | 30 (36.1) | 48 (57.8) | 5 (6.0) | 76 (91.6) | 4 (4.8) | 3 (3.6) | 83 (11.6) | ||
Ethnicity | |||||||||
Arab | 142 (34.0) | 257 (61.5) | 19 (4.5) | 0.034 | 363 (86.8) | 40 (9.6) | 15 (3.6) | 0.992 | 418 (58.3) |
Beja | 8 (30.8) | 16 (61.5) | 2 (7.7) | 23 (88.5) | 2 (7.7) | 1 (3.8) | 26 (3.6) | ||
Fallata | 8 (40.0) | 11 (55.0) | 1 (5.0) | 17 (85.0) | 3 (15.0) | 0 (0.0) | 20 (2.8) | ||
Fur | 30 (50.8) | 26 (44.1) | 3 (5.1) | 50 (84.7) | 6 (10.2) | 3 (5.1) | 59 (8.2) | ||
Nuba | 34 (35.1) | 59 (60.8) | 4 (4.1) | 82 (84.5) | 11 (11.3) | 4 (4.1) | 97 (13.5) | ||
Nubian | 52 (53.6) | 40 (41.2) | 5 (5.2) | 85 (87.6) | 8 (8.2) | 4 (4.1) | 97 (13.5) | ||