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Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 Dec 16;137(2):10.1007/s10549-012-2373-1. doi: 10.1007/s10549-012-2373-1

Table 3.

Association between PTP1B expression and breast cancer intrinsic subtypes

Molecular subtype	PTP1B-positive (n)	%	PTP1B-negative	%	p value
Luminal A (ER⁺ and/or PR⁺, HER2^–, Ki-67 <14 %)	107	49.1	111	50.9	<0.008
Luminal B (HER2-negative) ER⁺ and/or PR⁺, HER2^–, Ki-67 ≥ 14 %)	344	50.4	339	49.6
Luminal B (HER2-positive) (ER⁺ and/or PR⁺, HER2⁺)	84	53.9	72	46.1
HER2 type (ER^– or PR^–, HER2⁺)	58	52.2	53	47.8
Basal-like (ER^–,PR^–, HER2^–)	86	37.9	141	62.1