Table 1.
Conditional probability of marker status given carrier status
| Marker status | Marker status given carrier status | ||||
| ER | CK14 | CK5/6 | PR | BRCA1 | Non-BRCA1 |
| + | . | . | . | 0.1 | 0.65 |
| - | + | + | . | 0.438 | 0.016 |
| - | + | - | . | 0.124 | 0.048 |
| - | - | + | . | 0.134 | 0.024 |
| - | - | - | . | 0.209 | 0.24 |
| . | . | . | + | 0.21 | 0.63 |
Estimates obtained from Lakhani and colleagues [1]. Plus signs (+) denote positive; hyphens (-) denote negative; periods (.) denote missing.