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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2011 Apr 8;129(9):2256–2262. doi: 10.1002/ijc.25870

Table 2.

Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for carriers of monoallelic MUTYH mutations compared to the general population for cancers by sex

Median age of diagnosis, year (min–max) Observed number1 Expected number SIR (95%CI)2 p
Both sexes
Colorectal cancer 67 (24–89) 10 4.93 2.04 (1.56–2.70) <0.001
Gastric cancer 71 (48–85) 3 0.85 3.24 (2.18–4.98) <0.001
Liver cancer 62 (30–83) 1 0.24 3.09 (1.07–12.25) 0.07
Pancreatic cancer 65 (52–83) 1 0.90 0.91 (0.34–3.25) 0.87
Brain cancer 54 (35–84) 1 0.74 1.66 (0.66–5.45) 0.35
Renal cancer 65 (46–76) 1 0.82 0.91 (0.36–2.97) 0.86
Lung cancer 70 (26–82) 4 5.57 0.71 (0.44–1.21) 0.18
Female
Endometrial cancer 60 (19–85) 3 1.09 2.33 (1.18–5.08) 0.02
Breast cancer 62 (35–83) 7 5.63 1.27 (0.84–1.99) 0.28
Male
Prostate cancer 69 (39–87) 3 4.17 0.69 (0.46–1.06) 0.08
1

Observed number of cancers for monoallelic mutation carriers were calculated by multiplying the numbers of cancers by the probabilities of being a monoallelic carrier. Numbers were rounded to no decimal place.

2

Confidence interval based on with robust variance correction for familial correlation in risk