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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 2.

Characteristics of non-Ashkenazi Jewish families*

All Families (n = 136) BRCA1 Point Mutation Positive Families (n = 21) BRCA2 Point Mutation Positive Families (n = 15) BRCA1 Genomic Rearrangement Positive Families (n = 7) BRCA2 Genomic Rearrangement Positive Families (n = 1) All Mutation Positive Families (n = 44) All Mutation Negative Families (n = 92) p value
Familial Characteristics
 Any Breast Cancer (%) 134 (99) 21 (100) 15 (100) 7 (100) 1 (100) 44 (100) 90 (98) 0.55
 Breast Cancer <50 y (%) 130 (96) 20 (95) 15 (100) 7 (100) 1 (100) 43 (98) 87 (95) 0.55
 Br/Ov Cancer in the same individual (%) 22 (16) 6 (29) 4 (27) 1 (14) 0 11 (25) 11 (12) 0.05
 Any Ovarian Cancer (%) 63 (46) 14 (67) 8 (53) 4 (57) 1 (100) 27 (61) 36 (39) 0.02
 Male Breast Cancer (%) 9 (7) 1 (5) 1 (6) 0 1 (100) 3 (7) 6 (7) >0.99
 Pancreatic Cancer (%) 9 (7) 1 (5) 5 (33) 0 0 6 (14) 3 (3) 0.03
 Prostate Cancer (%) 26 (19) 7 (33) 3 (9) 2 (29) 1 (100) 13 (29) 13 (14) 0.04
Proband Characteristics
 Breast Cancer Only (%) 90 (66) 9 (43) 10 (67) 4 (57) 0 23 (52) 67 (73) 0.02
 Bilateral Breast Cancer (%) 15 (11) 4 (19) 1 (7) 2 (29) 1 (100) 8 (18) 7 (8) 0.08
 Ovarian Cancer Only (%) 13 (10) 3 (14) 1 (7) 1 (14) 0 5 (11) 8 (9) 0.75
 Br/Ov Cancer in the same individual (%) 13 (10) 4 (19) 2 (13) 0 0 6 (14) 7 (8) 0.34
 Male Breast Cancer (%) 5 (4) 1 (5) 1 (7) 0 0 2 (5) 3 (3) >0.99
 Breast Cancer Average Age Dx 43.1 40.4 43.5 35.7 --- 40.8 44.0 0.14
 Ovarian Cancer Average Age Dx 57.5 51 59 --- --- 53.7 60.3 0.57
*

includes up to fourth degree relatives

comparison of all mutation positive and negative families using two-tailed Fisher Exact test

comparison of average age of diagnoses using Krushal Wallis test