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Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2010 Nov 28;128(11):2726–2734. doi: 10.1002/ijc.25721

Table 5.

Survival following a diagnosis of colon or rectal cancer in relation to CRP tagSNPs.

CRP genotype1 Colon cancer
Rectal cancer
CRC deaths
All causes
CRC deaths
All causes
n HRR2 (95%CI) HRR2 (95%CI) n HRR2 (95%CI) HRR2 (95%CI)
rs1205 (3’ UTR)
GG 628 1 Referent 1 Referent 293 1 Referent 1 Referent
GA 579 1.1 (0.8, 1.4) 1.1 (0.9, 1.1) 323 1.0 (0.7, 1.5) 0.8 (0.6, 1.0)
AA 153 0.7 (0.4, 1.1) 0.9 (0.7, 1.0) 75 1.1 (0.6, 2.0) 0.8 (0.6, 1.1)
AA vs. GG/GA 0.7 (0.4, 1.0) 0.7 (0.5, 0.98) 1.1 (0.7, 1.8) 1.0 (0.6, 1.6)
rs1417938 (intron 1)
TT 674 1 Referent 1 Referent 356 1 Referent 1 Referent
TA/AA 684 1.1 (0.9, 1.4) 1.1 (0.9, 1.4) 340 0.9 (0.6, 1.3) 0.9 (0.6, 1.2)
rs1800947 (L184L)
GG 1210 1 Referent 1 Referent 620 1 Referent 1 Referent
GC/CC 152 0.9 (0.6, 1.4) 0.9 (0.6, 1.2) 77 1.0 (0.6, 1.6) 0.9 (0.6, 1.4)
rs3093075 (3’ flank.)
CC 1179 1 Referent 1 Referent 624 1 Referent 1 Referent
CA/AA 182 1.1 (0.7, 1.6) 1.1 (0.8, 1.5) 73 0.8 (0.5, 1.5) 0.9 (0.5, 1.5)

Abbreviations: tagSNP, tagging single nucleotide polymorphism; HRR, hazard rate ratio; 95%CI, 95% confidence interval; CRC, colorectal cancer.

1

Recessive model for rs1205 is shown in bolded font.

2

Based on 5-year survival, CRC and all-cause mortality; adjusted for age, sex, and American Joint Committee on Cancer disease stage at diagnosis.