. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 24.

Published in final edited form as: Prostate. 2013 Nov 28;74(4):359–364. doi: 10.1002/pros.22755

TABLE II.

Associations Between Age-Adjusted Telomere Length and Prostate Cancer, Johns Hopkins Hereditary Prostate Cancer Family Database

TL quartile^a	No. of affected men	No. of unaffected men	OR^b	95% CI	P-value
Q1	38	16	0.54	(0.18, 1.68)	0.29
Q2	16	16	0.41	(0.14, 1.22)	0.11
Q3	21	15	0.66	(0.23, 1.91)	0.44
Q4	37	16	1.00	—	—
P-trend					0.18
Q1	38	16	0.84	(0.32, 2.20)	0.73
Q2–Q4	74	47	1.00	—	—

Quartiles are based on batch-specific cut-points derived from the distribution of age-adjusted telomere length in unaffected men.

ORs are adjusted for age and decade of birth and account for clustering by family.