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. 2021 Mar 23;59(2):115–121. doi: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2020-107347

Table 1.

Association of pathogenic variants with early onset of breast cancer

Total BRCA1 BRCA2 TP53* CHEK2† PALB2 ATM BRIP1 RAD50 RECQL
PROCAS controls 1567 2 9 0 6 3 6 2 6 5
% 0.13% 0.57% 0.00% 0.38% 0.19% 0.38% 0.13% 0.38% 0.32%
Breast cancer ≤30 study overall 379/184‡ 75 35 22 2 4 2 1 1 1
% 19.79% 9.23% 5.80% 0.53% 2.17% 1.09% 0.54% 0.54% 0.54%
P value <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.6576 0.0032 0.1844 0.2847 0.5409 0.4868
Population based cohort 125/46 23 11 5 0 0 0 1 0 0
% 18.4% 8.8% 4.0% 2.17%
P value <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.0832
Referral to MCGM 254/138 52 24 17 2 4 2 0 1 1
% 20.47% 9.45% 6.69% 0.78% 2.90% 1.45% 0.72% 0.72%
P value <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.1320 0.0012 0.1320 0.4467 0.3978
POSH study 287 32 17 5 3
% 11.15% 5.92% 1.74% 1.05%
P value <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.1508

*TP53 p value is based on population frequency of 1/5000.

CHEK2 p value is calculated for c.1100delC only.

‡Total of women tested for BRCA1/2, TP53 variants and CHEK2 c.1100delC is 379, total number of women tested for an extended panel of genes is 184.

MCGM, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine.