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. 2015 Feb 13;10(2):e0117419. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117419

Table 2. Associations of diabetes Genetic Risk Score (GRS) with clinical characteristics.

GRS
Q1(N = 1588) Q2(N = 1587) Q3(N = 1589) Q4(N = 1582) P value
ER 0.86
Negative 31.99 31.32 32.79 32.17
Positive 58.31 60.11 58.59 59.04
Unknown 9.70 8.70 8.62 8.79
PR 0.39
Negative 36.27 36.48 38.89 35.46
Positive 53.78 54.95 52.24 55.31
Unknown 9.95 8.57 8.87 9.23
TNM 0.74
0-I 33.69 33.96 33.86 31.54
II 49.43 48.46 47.45 49.31
III-IV 9.26 9.51 10.26 10.87
Unknown 7.62 8.07 8.43 8.28
Diabetes <0.01
No 85.64 83.11 81.81 76.04
Yes 6.74 7.94 9.88 14.66
Unknown 7.62 8.95 8.31 9.29
Age at diagnosis
53.04(9.87) 52.61(9.95) 52.76(9.82) 52.61(9.97) 0.60

a Percentage for categorical variables (ER/PR/TNM stage), mean (Standard deviation) for the variable of age at diagnosis.

b Pearson’s χ2 test for categorical variables, Kruskal-Wallis test for continuous variable.