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. 2016 May 23;98(6):1208–1219. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.05.014

Table 2.

Summary of the Main Findings from Analyses of EADI1 Study and Combined Analyses of ULSAM and PIVUS Cohorts

EADI1 ULSAM+PIVUS
Association between LOY and AD without Excluding Men with Cancer

Unadj. K-S testa D = 0.07 (p = 0.0198) D = 0.13 (p = 0.0137) Figure 3
Adj. logistic regressionb OR = 2.80 (p = 0.0184) Table S2B
Adj. ANCOVAc F = 5.63 (p = 0.0178) Table S2A
Adj. Cox (cont. mLRRY)d HR = 6.80 (p = 0.0011) Table 1
Adj. Cox (cont. mLRRY)e HR = 4.16 (p = 0.0085) Table S3
Adj. Cox (LOY 1/0 99% CI)d HR = 1.63 (p = 0.0260) Figure 4A
Adj. Cox (LOY 1/0 −0.4)d HR = 2.90 (p = 0.0250) Figure 4C

Association between LOY and AD after Excluding Men with Cancer

Unadj. K-S test1 D = 0.14 (p = 0.0066) Figure 3
Adj. Cox (cont. mLRRY)d HR = 28.41 (p < 0.0001) Table S6
Adj. Cox (LOY 1/0 99% CI)d HR = 2.00 (p = 0.0046) Figure 4B
Adj. Cox (LOY 1/0 −0.4)d HR = 5.33 (p = 0.0010) Figure 4D

Association between LOY and AD among Men 70–75 Years Old

Adj. Cox (cont. mLRRY)d HR = 25.82 (p < 0.0001) Table S10

Association between LOY and AD among Men 75–80 Years Old

Adj. Cox (cont. mLRRY)d HR = 9.92 (p = 0.0489) Table S11

Association between LOY and AD in Non-smokers

Adj. Cox (cont. mLRRY)d HR = 6.04 (p = 0.0131) Table S12

Association between LOY and Cancer without Excluding Men with AD

Adj. Cox (cont. mLRRY)d HR = 3.76 (p = 0.022)f Table S9

Association between LOY and Cancer after Excluding Men with AD

Adj. Cox (cont. mLRRY)d HR = 5.58 (p = 0.0041) Table S9

The “cont. mLRRY” is the continuous mLRRY estimate (i.e., the median of the log R ratio values of SNP-array probes positioned within the male-specific region of chromosome Y) reflecting the degree of LOY mosaicism in each participant. We also scored participants as 1 or 0 based on their mLRRY value using two different thresholds, i.e., mLRRY < −0.4 and mLRRY < 99% CI, as further described in the text. Abbreviations are as follows: D, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test statistic; HR, hazard ratio; OR, odds ratio.

a

Unadj. K-S test = Unadjusted Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.

b

Logistic regression model using AD status (1/0) as dependent variable and adjusting for the confounders APOE genotype and age at sampling.

c

ANCOVA model testing the continuous mLRRY estimate as dependent variable and adjusting for the confounders APOE genotype and age at sampling.

d

Cox hazards regression models testing the effect from the level of LOY in blood and risk for AD diagnosis during follow-up time, after adjusting survival from the 12 confounders summarized in Table S1 (i.e., APOE epsilon 4 genotype, age at sampling, smoking, BMI, diabetes, LDL and HDL cholesterol, hypertension, exercise habits, education level, alcohol consumption, and autosomal aberrations >1 Mb).

e

Cox hazards regression model testing the effect from level of LOY in blood and risk for AD diagnosis during follow-up time, after adjusting survival only for the significant confounders (Table S3).

f

The association between LOY and risk for cancer without excluding men with AD has been published.30