There are errors in Table 1. The values in the row labeled Age (mean ± s.e) are incorrect. Please see the corrected Table 1 here.
Table 1. Summary statistics of all the subjects included in the Italian GWAS.
| CASALE M. | TURIN | GENOA | ALL SAMPLE | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | Controls | Cases | Controls | Cases | Controls | Cases | Controls | |
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |
| Eligible | 241 (48.88) | 252 (51.12) | 91 (61.9) | 56 (38.1) | 75 (48.08) | 81 (51.92) | 407 (51.13) | 389 (48.87) |
| After QC filtering | 230 (49.25) | 237 (50.75) | 89 (61.81) | 55 (38.19) | 73 (49.32) | 75 (50.68) | 392 (51.65) | 367 (48.35) |
| GENDER | ||||||||
| Males | 155 (67.39) | 162 (68.35) | 62 (69.66) | 38 (69.09) | 67 (91.78) | 56 (74.67) | 284 (72.45) | 256 (69.75) |
| Females | 75 (32.61) | 75 (31.65) | 27 (30.34) | 17 (30.91) | 6 (8.22) | 19 (25.33) | 108 (27.55) | 111 (30.25) |
| BIRTH PLACE | ||||||||
| North Italy | 204 (90.27) | 186 (78.81) | 62 (69.66) | 35 (63.64) | 54 (78.26) | 53 (76.81) | 320 (83,33) | 274 (76,11) |
| Center Italy | 6 (2.65) | 12 (5.08) | 5 (5.62) | 1 (1.82) | 8 (11.59) | 5 (7.25) | 19 (4,95) | 18 (5) |
| South Italy | 14 (6.19) | 33 (13.98) | 16 (17.98) | 17 (30.91) | 4 (5.8) | 4 (5.8) | 34 (8.85) | 54 (15) |
| Sardinia | 0 (0) | 2 (0.85) | 3 (3.37) | 2 (3.64) | 1 (1.45) | 3 (4.35) | 4 (1.04) | 7 (1.94) |
| Other Caucasians | 2 (0.88) | 3 (1.27) | 3 (3.37) | 0 (0) | 2 (2.9) | 4 (5.8) | 7 (1.82) | 7 (1.94) |
| ASBESTOS EXPOSURE | ||||||||
| Non exposed | 4 (2.06) | 54 (22.78) | 3 (3.37) | 18 (32.73) | 10 (13.7) | 41 (54.67) | 17 (4.87) | 113 (30.79) |
| Medium exposed | 106 (54.64) | 103 (43.46) | 33 (37.08) | 25 (45.45) | 7 (9.59) | 22 (29.33) | 146 (41.01) | 150 (40.87) |
| High exposed | 84 (43.3) | 80 (33.76) | 53 (59.55) | 12 (21.82) | 56 (76.71) | 12 (16) | 193 (54.21) | 104 (28.34) |
| Age (mean±s.e.) | 67.61±11.14 | 63.36±11.06 | 68.74±8.84 | 68.31±8.80 | 69.64±9.64 | 58.59±15.03 | 68.25±10.39 | 63.11±12.01 |
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