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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Jun 22;19(7):1822–1830. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-1317

Table 3. Associations* of a per-allele increase in TYMS rs495139 and risk of ovarian carcinoma types among white non-Hispanic subjects in OCAC.

Studies Co Serous Mucinous Endometrioid Clear Cell

Ca OR (95% CI) P trend Ca OR (95% CI) P trend Ca OR (95% CI) P trend Ca OR (95% CI) P trend P value
15 OCAC studies 8,410 2,823 1.06 (1.00-1.13) 0.05 354 1.19 (1.03-1.39) 0.02 821 0.90 (0.81-0.99) 0.04 409 0.86 (0.75-0.99) 0.04 0.001

15 OCAC studies§ 8,410 1,775 1.02 (0.94-1.10) 0.68 204 1.26 (1.04-1.54) 0.02 515 0.94 (0.83-1.07) 0.36 409 0.86 (0.74-0.99) 0.04 0.04

15 OCAC studies§, “re-assigned” type 8,410 1,972 1.02 (0.95-1.09) 0.62 183 1.32 (1.07-1.62) 0.01 318 0.92 (0.78-1.08) 0.29 409 0.86 (0.74-0.99) 0.04 0.04

Co, controls; Ca, cases

Bold text indicates statistically significant associations

*

Adjusted for age and study

P for tumor heterogeneity

All OCAC studies including MAY and NCO1 but excluding MAL, which failed genotyping; samples do not total 5,593 cases and 9,962 controls from application of quality control criteria (see Methods) and exclusion of rarer histologies

§

Cases further restricted to samples with information on grade