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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2013 Feb 21;119(10):1792–1799. doi: 10.1002/cncr.27893

Table 4.

Comparison of RET/PTC or PAX8/PPARγ positive tumors with BRAF or RAS mutation positive tumors according to selected patient characteristics in thyroid cancers that developed after the Chernobyl accident

Characteristic Relative risk of rearrangements vs point mutations
(95% CI)
P heterogeneity1
I-131 dose, Gy 8.00 (1.30, 150.96) 0.020
Oblast of residence Kyiv vs Chernihiv 4.12 (0.22, 100.89) 0.003
Zhytomyr vs Chernihiv 139.07 (7.13, 5843.00)
Age at surgery, yr 0.62 (0.47, 0.79) <0.001
Sex Female vs Male 0.01 (0.00, 0.16) <0.001
1

Based on multivariate logistic regression models.