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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterology. 2013 Feb 8;144(7):1402–1409.e5. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2013.02.001

Table 3.

Univariate Risk Factors (Clinical Characteristics) for Germline Mutations in ENG, PTEN, STK11, BMPR1A and SMAD4

Variable N ENG (11; 1.8%) PTEN (13; 2.2%) STK11 (13; 2.2%) BMPR1A (20; 3.3%) SMAD4 (21; 3.5%) Any Gene (77; 12.8%)

# (%) # (%) # (%) # (%) # (%) # (%)
Clinical Characteristics
Age, years
 <40 155 3 (1.9) 3 (1.9) 7 (4.5) 6 (3.9) 11 (7.1) 30 (19.4)
 ≥40 448 8 (1.8) 10 (2.2) 6 (1.3) 14 (3.1) 10 (2.2) 47 (10.5)
P-value 1.0 1.0 0.047 0.61 0.009 0.008
Gender
 F 360 5 (1.4) 7 (1.9) 4 (1.1) 11 (3.1) 10 (2.8) 37 (10.3)
 M 243 6 (2.5) 6 (2.5) 9 (3.7) 9 (3.7) 11 (4.5) 40 (16.5)
P-value 0.36 0.78 0.044 0.65 0.26 0.034
Number of polyps
 5–29 461 10 (2.2) 8 (1.7) 9 (2.0) 9 (2.0) 14 (3.0) 50 (10.8)
 ≥30 142 1 (0.7) 5 (3.5) 4 (2.8) 11 (7.7) 7 (4.9) 27 (19.0)
P-value 0.47 0.20 0.52 0.002 0.30 0.014
Family history of colonic polyps
 No 308 5 (1.6) 8 (2.6) 7 (2.3) 7 (2.3) 5 (1.6) 32 (10.4)
 Yes 295 6 (2.0) 5 (1.7) 6 (2.0) 13 (4.4) 16 (5.4) 45 (15.3)
P-value 0.77 0.58 1.0 0.17 0.013 0.09
Personal history of CRC
 No 484 7 (1.4) 11 (2.3) 12 (2.5) 16 (3.3) 20 (4.1) 65 (13.4)
 Yes 119 4 (3.4) 2 (1.7) 1 (0.8) 4 (3.4) 1 (0.8) 12 (10.1)
 P-value 0.24 1.0 0.48 1.0 0.10 0.36
Family history of CRC
 No 278 5 (1.8) 13 (4.7) 8 (2.9) 10 (3.6) 16 (5.8) 51 (18.3)
 Yes 325 6 (1.8) 0 (0.0) 5 (1.5) 10 (3.1) 5 (1.5) 26 (8.0)
P-value 1.0 <0.001 0.28 0.82 0.006 <0.001