Table 2

 Information and the primer sequences for the studied SNPs in the COL1A1 gene

SNPdbSNP* or referencePolymorphism†Frequency‡Location in gene§Primers (5′–3′)
*SNP ID in the database dbSNP, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP; †Bold-faced letters are the minor alleles; ‡Allele frequencies of the minor alleles; the T allele of SNP3 was not observed in our sample; §The numbers in parentheses are physical distances from the previous SNP in bp units; ¶The Sp1 polymorphism lies at position 1546 on the sequence AF017178 (GenBank accession number).
PCOL2Garcia-Giralt et al19-1997 G/T0.152PromoterF: GCACCCTGCCCTAGACCAC
R: CCTAGTGCCAGCGACTGCA
Sp1Grant et al21546 G/T0.187Intron 1 (3543)F: CCAATCAGCCGCTCCCATTC
R: CATCGGGAGGGCAGGCTC
Gly19CysLund et al183911 G/TExon 8 (2365)F: GGAAGACTGGGATGAGGGCA
R: GGCTCGCCAGGCTCACC
Ala897Thrrs180021513 773 G/A0.019Exon 45 (9862)F: CTCAGCCTTCCCTGGCCAA
R: AGGCGGAAGTTCCATTGGCATC