Table 3.

Association between deletions of the 4 candidate genes in early- and late-onset BC

		Group-A								Group-B
		PHF2		FANCC		PTCH1		XPA		PHF2		FANCC		PTCH1		XPA
		D+	D-	D+	D-	D+	D-	D+	D-	D+	D-	D+	D-	D+	D-	D+	D-
PHF2	D+	-	-	9	11	6	14	6	14	-	-	13	12	5	20	6	19
	D-			13	14	8	19	4	23			16	18	11	23	6	28
p value		-		0.83		0.98		0.21		-		0.71		0.29		0.55
FANCC	D+	-	-	-	-	5	17	5	17	-	-	-	-	7	22	5	24
	D-					9	16	5	20					9	21	7	23
p value		-		-		0.32		0.82		-		-		0.61		0.56
PTCH1	D+	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	7
	D-							4	29							3	40
p value		-		-		-		0.02*		-		-		-		0.00003*

Abbreviations used are: D+: Deletion positive; D-: Deletion negative; * indicates p value significance