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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2009 Apr 16;181(6):2502–2507. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2009.01.109

Table 3.

Clinical and pathological features in carriers and noncarriers of 17q CaP sequence variants in recessive best fit genetic model

17q12 17q24
No. Pts Carriers (TT) Noncarriers
(CT or CC)
p Value* Carriers (G,G) Noncarriers
(G,T or T,T)
p Value*
Median age (range) 759 59 (41–75) 59 (37–77) 0.89 59 (37–77) 59 (39–77) 0.75
Median ng/ml preop PSA (range) 727 5.0 (0.5–48.0) 5.0 (0.3–30.0) 0.71 5.1 (0.8–48.0) 5.0 (0.3–39.4) 0.92
Median ng/ml/yr PSA velocity (range) 313 1.2 (−45.0–19.4) 1.6 (−251.4–37.3) 0.07 1.4 (−8.1–19.4) 1.4 (−251.4–37.3) 0.57
No. family history 1st-degree relative (%) 652 55 (27) 142 (32) 0.17 50 (28) 147 (31) 0.57
No. stage ≤T1C (%) 728 151 (65) 364 (73) 0.04 142 (70) 373 (71) 0.79
No. biopsy Gleason score ≥7 (%) 711 73 (32) 158 (33) 0.93 71 (36) 160 (31) 0.21
No. pathological Gleason score ≥7 (%) 707 110 (49) 241 (50) 0.87 88 (46) 263 (51) 0.24
No. organ confined T2 (%) 724 184 (81) 392 (79) 0.62 159 (80) 417 (80) 0.99
No. extracapsular extension (%) 711 42 (19) 95 (20) 0.84 36 (18) 101 (20) 0.75
No. pos surgical margins (%) 725 45 (20) 90 (18) 0.68 42 (21) 93 (18) 0.34
No. seminal vesicle invasion (%) 725 8 (3) 26 (5) 0.35 10 (5) 24 (5) 0.84
No. pos lymph nodes (%) 723 2 (1) 4 (1) 0.99 3 (2) 3 (1) 0.36
No. biological recurrence (%)** 397 10 (9) 16 (6) 0.18 3 (3) 23 (8) 0.16
*

Kruskal-Wallis test for continuous variables, eg age, PSA and PSA velocity, and Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables.

**

PSA greater than 0.2 ng/ml