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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019 Apr 4;28(7):1117–1126. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-18-0833

Table 1.

Study participant characteristics and Copy Number Variant (CNV) distributions

610k Array
N=2818
2.5M Array
N=792
Case Control Pvaluea Case Control Pvaluea
N 1368 1450 449 343
Age
 Mean (range) 60.1 (26-91) 57.7 (20-90) <0.001 62.2 (20-88) 58.2 (22-93) <0.001
Study Site
 Minnesota region (Mayo) 325 467 449 343
 North Carolina (Duke) 406 553 0 0
 Tampa Bay (Moffitt) 152 139 0 0
 Toronto (U of Toronto) 485 291 0 0
Histotype (%)
 Serous 825 (60%) 346 (77%)
  High grade 410 (30%) 303 (67%)
  Low grade/LMP 121 (9%) 43 (10%)
  Unknown 294 (21%) 0
 Endometrioid 241 (18%) 30 (7%)
 Mucinous 63 (5%) 28 (6%)
 Clear cell 112 (8%) 15 (3%)
 Mixed cell 38 (3%) 25 (6%)
 Other 89 (7%) 5 (1%)
CNV segments (No.)
 All 30877 33626 28578 21929
 Deletions 23532 (76%) 25028 (74%) 11947 (42%) 8821 (40%)
 Duplications 7345 (24%) 8598 (26%) 16631 (58%) 13108 (60%)
CNV segments (Mean)
 All 22.6 23.2 0.93 63.7 63.9 0.63
 Deletions 17.2 17.3 0.56 26.6 25.7 0.06
 Duplications 5.4 5.9 1.00 37.0 38.2 0.92
Average CNV length (Kb)
 All 77 80 0.99 48 49 0.93
 Deletions 55 54 0.34 25 26 0.73
 Duplications 144 146 0.64 65 66 0.77
a

Mean age was compared between cases and controls with the student t-test. Empirical p-values are reported for difference in CNV average number of segments and difference in average CNV length based on 10000 permutations.