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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2016 Oct 11;140(2):329–336. doi: 10.1002/ijc.30447

Table 3. Subgroup analyses of heritability for six cancers.

Cancer types Subgroups hL 1(SE) P P 2
Lung cancer Male 0.153(0.023) 1.61E-07 0.190
Female 0.243(0.062) 4.73E-05

Smoker 0.144(0.038) 6.45E-05 0.165
Nonsmoker 0.225(0.045) 8.60E-08

Gastric Cancer Male 0.227(0.053) 7.17E-06 0.421
Female 0.336(0.125) 3.44E-04

Smoker 0.192(0.088) 1.34E-02 0.144
Nonsmoker 0.347(0.059) 8.00E-10

Drinker 0.247(0.111) 1.36E-02 0.805
Nondrinker 0.278(0.054) 6.97E-08

Hepatocellular carcinoma Male 0.088(0.043) 1.80E-02 0.876
Female 0.059(0.180) 3.67E-01

Smoker 0.100(0.069) 6.64E-02 0.727
Nonsmoker 0.067(0.064) 1.40E-01

Drinker 0.000(0.090) 5.00E-01 0.315
Nondrinker 0.105(0.053) 2.19E-02

Nasopharyngeal Cancer Male 0.158(0.042) 1.05E-04 0.307
Female 0.084(0.059) 8.55E-02

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma Male 0.214(0.028) 3.29E-14 0.917
Female 0.224(0.096) 8.44E-04

Smoker 0.187(0.036) 1.22E-07 0.190
Nonsmoker 0.272(0.053) 2.95E-07

Drinker 0.221(0.043) 1.44E-07 0.315
Nondrinker 0.159(0.044) 1.04E-04

Breast Cancer BMI ≤ 23.44 0.128(0.047) 2.33E-03 0.734
BMI > 23.44 0.106(0.047) 1.29E-02

Age of menarche ≤ 14 0.048(0.048) 1.63E-01 0.110
Age of menarche > 14 0.157(0.049) 7.58E-04
1

Variance explained by all the autosomal SNPs in liability scale;

2

P value for genetic heterogeneity between subgroups.