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. 2021 May 27;7(7):1–7. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.1492

Table 3. Prevalence of Pathogenic Variants (PVs) in Black and Non-Hispanic White Women With Breast Cancer From Population-Based Studies in the CARRIERS Consortium by Estrogen Receptor (ER) Status and in Cases Diagnosed at Age <50 Years.

Gene ER negative ER positive Triple negative Age at breast cancer diagnosis <50 y
No. (%) P valuea No. (%) P valuea No. (%) P valuea No. (%) P valuea
Black women (n = 981) Non-Hispanic White women (n = 2426) Black women (n = 2375) Non-Hispanic White women (n = 13 939) Black women (n = 466) Non-Hispanic White women (n = 894) Black women (n = 1155) Non-Hispanic White women (n = 3415)
ATM 4 (0.41) 12 (0.49) >.99 18 (0.76) 123 (0.88) .63 0 5 (0.56) .17 10 (0.87) 51 (1.49) .14
BARD1 3 (0.31) 8 (0.33) >.99 3 (0.13) 16 (0.11) .75 3 (0.64) 3 (0.34) .42 2 (0.17) 6 (0.18) >.99
BRCA1 30 (3.06) 79 (3.26) .83 9 (0.38) 55 (0.39) >.99 18 (3.86) 46 (5.15) .35 28 (2.42) 103 (3.02) .36
BRCA2 26 (2.65) 49 (2.02) .25 37 (1.56) 147 (1.05) .04 10 (2.15) 18 (2.01) .84 35 (3.03) 88 (2.58) .40
CDH1 2 (0.20) 1 (0.04) .20 1 (0.04) 11 (0.08) >.99 1 (0.21) 0 .34 1 (0.09) 4 (0.12) >.99
CHEK2 2 (0.20) 17 (0.70) .12 11 (0.46) 189 (1.36) <.001 1 (0.21) 7 (0.78) .28 5 (0.43) 62 (1.82) <.001
NF1 1 (0.10) 1 (0.04) .49 3 (0.13) 6 (0.04) .13 1 (0.21) 0 .34 1 (0.09) 2 (0.06) >.99
PALB2 18 (1.83) 23 (0.95) .04 13 (0.55) 47 (0.34) .14 13 (2.79) 11 (1.23) .05 11 (0.95) 17 (0.50) .12
PTEN 0 0 NA 0 2 (0.01) .14 0 0 NA 1 (0.09) 4 (0.12) >.99
RAD51C 2 (0.20) 6 (0.25) >.99 4 (0.17) 9 (0.06) .11 1 (0.21) 2 (0.22) >.99 4 (0.35) 5 (0.15) .24
RAD51D 4 (0.41) 2 (0.08) .06 2 (0.08) 8 (0.06) .65 1 (0.21) 0 .34 2 (0.17) 3 (0.09) .61
TP53 0 2 (0.08) >.99 3 (0.13) 5 (0.04) .10 0 2 (0.22) .55 3 (0.26) 6 (0.18) .70
Totalb 91 (9.28) 196 (8.08) .28 104 (4.38) 610 (4.38) >.99 48 (10.30) 91 (10.18) >.99 102 (8.83) 343 (10.04) .25

Abbreviations: CARRIERS, Cancer Risk Estimates Related to Susceptibility; NA, not applicable.

a

Unadjusted Fisher exact test.

b

Total is defined as number of women with breast cancer who had at least 1 PV in 1 of these 12 genes.