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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 7.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Med. 2014 Oct 23;17(6):476–484. doi: 10.1038/gim.2014.131

Table 1.

Demographic Information

Germline Testing Group
LS (n = 97) MMRD+/Lynch− (n = 70) MMRD+/VUS (n = 31) sporadic MSI-H (n = 55) Total (n = 253)
N % N % N % N % N % p-value
Age a, b, c <0.0001
 N 97 70 31 55 253
 Mean (SD) 48.3 (12.6) 51.3 (12.7) 46.2 (8.9) 60.5 (13.0) 51.5 (13.2)
 Min (Med) Max 23 (48) 83 24 (50) 81 30 (46) 67 25 (60) 83 23 (50) 83
Vital Status 0.5280
 Alive 79 81.4 62 88.6 28 90.3 48 87.3 217 85.8
 Deceased 18 18.6 8 11.4 3 9.7 7 12.7 36 14.2
Ethnicity c 0.0402
 Caucasian 77 80.2 57 81.4 18 58.1 49 89.1 201 79.8
 African American 6 6.3 4 5.7 4 12.9 1 1.8 15 6.0
 Hispanic 9 9.4 6 8.6 2 6.5 2 3.6 19 7.5
 Asian 3 3.1 3 4.3 6 19.4 3 5.5 15 6.0
 Other 1 1.0 0 0.0 1 3.2 0 0.0 2 0.8
Tumor Location 0.0476
 Colon 80 82.5 58 82.9 28 90.3 40 72.7 206 81.4
 Endometrial 12 12.4 12 17.1 3 9.7 15 27.3 42 16.6
 Both 5 5.2 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 5 2.0
Other Cancer 0.1498
 No 50 51.5 47 67.1 20 64.5 36 65.5 153 60.5
 Yes 47 48.5 23 32.9 11 35.5 19 34.5 100 39.5
Number of other cancers
 0 50 51.5 47 67.1 20 64.5 36 65.5 153 60.5
 1 26 26.8 16 22.9 9 29.0 12 21.8 63 24.9
 2 10 10.3 5 7.1 1 3.2 3 5.5 19 7.5
 3 or more 11 11.3 2 2.9 1 3.2 4 7.3 18 7.1

Significant pairwise comparisons (alpha < 0.008):

a

LS vs. Sporadic MSI-H;

b

MMRD+/germline− vs Sporadic MSI-H;

c

MRD+/VUS vs. sporadic MSI-H