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. 2013 May 7;108(10):2045–2055. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2013.214

Table 4. Comparison of autoantibodies to MUC1 glycoforms in cases of breast cancer taken up to 3 years before diagnosis vs controls.

(A) Discovery set
 
 
MUC1 glycoforms P-value breast cancer cases vs controls
Time to diagnosis in years No. of sera MUC1 ungly MUC1 unglyRec MUC1core3 MUC1STn MUC1T MUC1TRec MUC1Tn MUC1TnRec MUC1STRec
0–1
93
0.245
0.598
0.124
0.374
0.362
0.560
0.171
0.418
0.299
1–2
90
0.121
0.409
0.024
0.311
0.373
0.359
0.320
0.453
0.204
2–3 74 0.347 0.110 0.185 0.583 0.251 0.322 0.763 0.961 0.331
(B) Validation set
UKCTOCS cohort
 
 
MUC1 glycoforms P-value breast cancer cases vs controls
Time to diagnosis in years No. of sera MUC1 ungly MUC1 ungly Rec MUC1core3 MUC1STn MUC1TRec MUC1Tn MUC1TnRec MUC1STRec
0–1
133
0.793
0.340
0.386
0.842
0.721
0.789
0.762
0.799
1–2
87
0.391
0.661
0.364
0.458
0.639
0.887
0.942
0.591
2–3 94 0.155 0.763 0.484 0.472 0.334 0.435 0.559 0.477
Guernsey cohort
 
 
MUC1 glycoforms P-value breast cancer cases vs all controls
Time to diagnosis in years No. of sera MUC1 ungly MUC1 ungly Rec MUC1core3 MUC1STn MUC1TRec MUC1Tn MUC1TnRec MUC1STRec
0–3 42 0.594 0.520 0.957 0.311 0.834 0.453 0.527 0.435

Abbreviation: UKCTOCS=UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening.