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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: BJU Int. 2014 Mar 5;113(5):830–835. doi: 10.1111/bju.12522

Table 2.

Comparing HoxB13 gene carriers to non-carriers according to select prostate cancer characteristics

University of Michigan (UM) Johns Hopkins (JH) All
GG GA GG GA GG GA
Characteristic N % N % p-
value*
N percent N percent p-
value*
N percent N percent p-
value*
Total 1274 15 6941 111 8215 126
Age at diagnosis / surgery 0.43 0.0004 0.0003
   ≤ 60 721 56.6 10 66.7 4371 63.0 88 79.3 5092 62.0 98 77.8
   > 60 553 43.4 5 33.3 2569 37.0 23 20.7 3122 38.0 28 22.2
Family History 0.28 0.01 0.006
   No 767 60.2 7 46.7 3948 56.9 49 44.1 4715 57.4 56 44.4
   Yes 465 36.5 8 53.3 2447 35.3 50 45.0 2912 35.4 58 46.0
   Unknown 42 3.3 0 0.0 546 7.9 12 10.8 588 7.2 12 9.5
Pathologic Gleason Score 0.56 0.95 0.95
   < 7 324 25.4 2 13.3 4008 57.7 65 58.6 4332 52.7 67 53.2
   7 (3+4) 610 47.9 9 60.0 1767 25.5 29 26.1 2377 28.9 38 30.2
   ≥ 7 (4+3) 298 23.4 4 26.7 1137 16.4 17 15.3 1435 17.5 21 16.7
   Unknown 42 3.3 0 0.0 29 0.4 0 0.0 71 0.9 0 0.0
Pathologic Tumor Stage 1.0 0.51 0.52
   ≤ T2 /N0 1051 82.5 13 86.7 4870 70.2 80 72.1 5921 72.1 93 73.8
   ≥T3 or any T/ N1 218 17.1 2 13.3 2040 29.4 29 26.1 2258 27.5 31 24.6
   Unknown 5 0.4 0 0.0 31 0.4 2 1.8 36 0.4 2 1.6
*

Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test for comparisons with small cells (excludes missing data).