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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Res. 2008 Aug 14;68(17):7006–7014. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-0599

Table 1.

Characteristics of all probands

Characteristics Family N° (%)
Ethnicity, All probands (N=251)
Non-Ashkenazi Jewish 136 (54)
 European 119 (87)
 African American 16 (12)
 Latin American 1 (1)
Ashkenazi Jewish 115 (46)

Cancer history
Non-Ashkenazi Jewish 136 (100)
 Breast only* 90 (66)
Age of breast diagnosis:
<30 3 (2)
30–39 33 (25)
40–49 46 (33)
50–59 7 (5)
≥ 60 1 (1)
 Ovarian only 13 (9)
 Breast and Ovarian 11 (8)
 Bilateral Breast 14 (11)
 Bilateral Breast and Ovarian Cancer 3 (2)
 Male Breast 5 (4)

Ashkenazi Jewish 115 (100)
 Breast only 71 (62)
Age of breast diagnosis:
<30 3 (2.5)
30–39 19 (16)
40–49 35 (31)
50–59 10 (9)
≥ 60 4 (3.5)
 Ovarian only 13 (11)
 Breast and Ovarian 6 (5)
 Bilateral Breast 21 (18)
 Bilateral Breast and Ovarian Cancer 2 (2)
 Male Breast 2 (2)
*

Cancer history percentage shown is the percent of total non-Ashkenazi Jewish or Ashkenazi Jewish groups