Table 1.

Descriptive summary of the Danish HNPCC data, containing 43 hMLH1 families, 59 hMSH2 families, and 22 hMSH6 families. The first column denotes total numbers of individuals, the second column gives numbers of individuals who have been diagnosed with a Lynch Syndrome (LS) cancer, and the third and fourth columns give summary statistics corresponding to the ages of onset (AOO) of affected individuals.

	# Subjects	# LS cancers	mean (AOO)	sd (AOO)
Males	392	263	47.0	13.0
Females	424	305	46.6	11.7
gen= 1	196	190	53.0	11.9
gen = 2	345	274	45.2	11.0
gen = 3	234	100	40.0	11.0
gen = 4	41	4	25.0	13.6
hMLH1	279	194	45.4	12.8
hMSH2	402	289	46.3	11.5
hMSH6	135	85	51.6	13.1