Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of Saudi BC cases and healthy controls used for genotyping

Variable	Character	Patients, n	Controls, n
Total people	na	126	146
Age (years), median age (48±8.2)	≤48 years	44	57
	>48 years	82	55
ER	ER+	75	na
	ER−	49	na
PR	PR+	71	na
	PR−	55	na
HER status	HER+	49	na
	HER−	78	na

Abbreviations: BC, breast cancer; ER, estrogen receptor; PR, progesterone receptor; HER, human epidermal growth factor receptor; na, not applicable.