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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2019 Oct 16;146(1):68–75. doi: 10.1002/ijc.32664

Table 4.

Proportions of explained familial risk (and 95% confidence intervals) with epidemiological approach, using different adjustment possibilities

Adjustment for common genetic variants … Linkage disequilibrium
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(NSNPs=97)
D’≥0.95
(NSNPs=90)
D’≥0.5
(NSNPs=80)
D’≥0.1
(NSNPs=71)
max. 1 SNP per locus
(NSNPs=59)
included as separate variables 13.8 2.2–23.2 14.3 3.3–23.2 13.8 3.3–22.2 13.2 3.3–21.3 10.2 1.3–18.3
included as a GRS… categorizeda unweighted 10.6 4.8–16.9 10.9 4.8–17.0 8.9 3.4–15.2 7.3 1.9–13.8 6.3 0.8–12.5
Weightedb 8.6 3.9–14.5 8.9 3.6–14.9 8.1 2.8–14.7 7.2 1.3–12.2 5.4 0.8–11.4
continuous unweighted 11.6 6.1–18.7 11.0 5.0–18.5 9.3 3.6–16.2 8.3 2.8–15.1 7.2 1.6–14.1
weightedb 8.9 4.0–14.8 8.9 3.2–15.5 7.7 2.2–13.9 7.4 2.5–13.3 6.4 1.5–12.3

Please note: 95% confidence intervals of explained familial risk was calculated using bootstrapping methods (n=1000)

Abbreviations: GRS, genetic risk score; OR, odds ratio

a

Categories defined by percentiles of distribution in controls: 0–10, 10–20, 20–40, 40–60, 60–80, 80–90, 90–100

b

Weights equal to log(OR) from discovery study