Table 2.

Case–control comparison of mean RTL on homologous short version of chromosome arms

Chromosome arms	All subjects			Pre-menopausal women			Post-menopausal women
	Cases, n = 204	Controls, n = 236	P-value†	Cases, n = 89	Controls n = 96	P-value†	Cases, n = 110	Controls, n = 132	P-value†
1p	0.75 (0.13)	0.78 (0.15)	0.04	0.74 (0.12)	0.81 (0.15)	0.003	0.75 (0.14)	0.76 (0.15)	0.65
Xp	0.78 (0.16)	0.80 (0.15)	0.29	0.76 (0.15)	0.83 (0.15)	0.001	0.78 (0.17)	0.78 (0.15)	0.31
9p	0.66 (0.14)	0.69 (0.13)	0.05	0.67 (0.14)	0.72 (0.13)	0.007	0.66 (0.14)	0.67 (0.13)	0.70
15p	0.70 (0.15)	0.70 (0.14)	0.64	0.68 (0.15)	0.74 (0.15)	0.013	0.71 (0.15)	0.66 (0.13)	0.01

RTL was defined as the percent of arm-specific telomere length divided by total telomere length of 92 telomeres. Mean (SD)s were presented in the table. P-values were considered significant if P ≤ 0.0005 (Bonferroni's correction 0.05/(46 × 2) = 0.0005).

^†P-values were based on Wilcoxon's rank-sum test.