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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018 Jan 4;168(3):703–712. doi: 10.1007/s10549-017-4638-1

Table 3.

Performance of the 93-SNP and 34-SNP polygenic risk scores by selected demographic characteristics

93-SNP polygenic risk score 34-SNP polygenic risk score


AUC (95% CI) OR (95% CI)* AUC (95% CI) OR (95% CI)*
Age group, years
 < 40 0.534 (0.495–0.573) 1.15 (1.00–1.32) 0.541 (0.503–0.580) 1.23 (1.03–1.46)
 40–59 0.514 (0.486–0.542) 1.06 (0.96–1.17) 0.522 (0.494–0.549) 1.13 (0.99–1.28)
 ≥ 60 0.533 (0.499–0.566) 1.12 (1.00–1.26) 0.534 (0.500–0.568) 1.18 (1.01–1.37)
P for heterogeneity 0.58 0.74

Ethnicity
 Nigerian 0.554 (0.523–0.585) 1.23 (1.10–1.38) 0.538 (0.507–0.569) 1.20 (1.03–1.40)
 African American/African Barbadian 0.508 (0.484–0.531) 1.04 (0.96–1.13) 0.527 (0.503–0.550) 1.15 (1.04–1.28)
P for heterogeneity 0.019 0.64

Family history of breast cancer
 Yes 0.554 (0.499–0.609) 1.22 (1.00–1.49) 0.586 (0.532–0.640) 1.39 (1.14–1.70)
 No 0.515 (0.493–0.537) 1.07 (0.99–1.15) 0.521 (0.500–0.543) 1.08 (1.00–1.17)
P for heterogeneity 0.22 0.022
*

odds ratio per unit standard deviation of the polygenic risk score

Abbreviation: AUC, area under the receiver operating curve; CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio