Table 1.
Participant numbers in each study by racial and ethnic group
| Asian a | Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander a | Hispanic | White, non-Hispanic | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Study acronym | Country | Dates of interview | Cases, no. (%) | Controls, no. (%) | Cases, no. (%) | Controls, no. (%) | Cases, no. (%) | Controls, no. (%) | Cases, no. (%) | Controls, no. (%) |
| 785 | 949 | 99 | 167 | 505 | 644 | 9981 | 14 208 | |||
| AUS | Australia | 2002-2005 | 36 (4.6) | 15 (1.6) | 3 (3.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1487 (14.9) | 1414 (10.0) |
| DOV | United States | 2002-2009 | 58 (7.4) | 54 (5.7) | 6 (6.1) | 8 (4.8) | 35 (6.9) | 42 (6.5) | 1016 (10.2) | 1679 (11.8) |
| HAW | United States | 1993-2008 | 314 (40.0) | 509 (53.6) | 86 (86.9) | 156 (93.4) | 32 (6.3) | 36 (5.6) | 267 (2.7) | 385 (2.7) |
| MAY | United States | 2000-2008 | 4 (0.5) | 2 (0.2) | 0 | 0 | 9 (1.8) | 11 (1.7) | 1582 (15.9) | 2249 (15.8) |
| NCO | United States | 1999-2008 | 4 (0.5) | 3 (0.3) | 1 (1.0) | 0 | 7 (1.4) | 12 (1.9) | 814 (8.2) | 856 (6.0) |
| NEC | United States | 1992-2008 | 12 (1.5) | 8 (0.8) | 0 | 0 | 18 (3.6) | 33 (5.1) | 1429 (14.3) | 2031 (14.3) |
| NJO | United States | 2002-2008 | 2 (0.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 (2.4) | 23 (3.6) | 207 (2.1) | 399 (2.8) |
| OVA | Canada | 2002-2012 | 97 (12.4) | 118 (12.5) | 0 | 0 | 6 (1.2) | 20 (3.1) | 1133 (11.4) | 2373 (16.7) |
| STA | United States | 1997-2002 | 82 (10.5) | 77 (8.1) | 2 (2.0) | 3 (1.8) | 51 (10.1) | 62 (9.6) | 327 (3.3) | 349 (2.5) |
| UCI | United States | 1995-2005 | 16 (2.0) | 12 (1.3) | 0 | 0 | 36 (7.1) | 39 (6.1) | 369 (3.7) | 534 (3.8) |
| USC | United States | 1993-2010 | 160 (20.4) | 151 (15.9) | 1 (1.0) | 0 | 299 (59.2) | 366 (56.8) | 1350 (13.5) | 1939 (13.7) |
Abbreviations: AUS, Australian Ovarian Cancer and Australian Cancer Study; BMI, body mass index; DOV, Diseases of the Ovary and their Evaluation Study; HAW, Hawaii Ovarian Cancer Case-Control Study; MAY, Mayo Clinic Ovarian Cancer Case-Control Study; NCO, North Carolina Ovarian Cancer Study; NEC, New England Case-Control Study of Ovarian Cancer; NJO, New Jersey Ovarian Cancer Study; OC, oral contraceptive; OR, odds ratio; OVA, Ovarian Cancer in Alberta and British Columbia Study; STA, Genetic Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer; UCI, University of California, Irvine, Ovarian Cancer Study; USC, Los Angeles County Case-Control Studies of Ovarian Cancer.
a Asian includes Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, Thai. Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander includes Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (Tongan, Samoan, Māori, Palauan, Chuukese, Micronesian).