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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 2.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022 Aug 2;31(8):1621–1629. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-21-1296

Table 1.

Participant characteristics.

Characteristic Range/Groups N (%)1 Clinical Categories1 p-value7

Germline PZM ACE

Sex Male 15 (11) 10 0 4 0.61
Female 119 (89) 79 7 22

Age at entry 0–50 89 (70) 68 6 10 0.001
51–71+ 45 (30) 21 1 16

Race White 76 (57) 47 5 20
Hispanic 35 (26) 28 2 3
Asian American 13 (10) 9 0 2
American Indian 4 (3) 1 0 1 0.559
African American 1 (0.8) 1 0 0
Pacific Islander 1 (0.8) 1 0 0
Unknown 4 (3) 2 0 0

Cancer status No 15 (11) 7 1 3 0.502
Yes 119 (89) 82 6 23

Age at cancer 0–50 92 (77) 71 6 11 <0.001
diagnosis 2 51–71+ 27 (23) 11 0 12

Cancer type 3 Breast 4 100 63 5 26
Sarcoma 28 28 0 0
Adrenocortical carcinoma 3 3 0 0
Brain 3 3 0 0
Lung 10 9 1 0 0.007
Colorectal 9 5 1 1
Thyroid 8 4 1 3
Leukemia 7 3 0 4
Other 5 31 18 2 9

TP53 Testing Meets 71 (53) 74 1 0 <0.001
Criteria 6 Does Not Meet 63 (47) 15 6 26
1

Total includes 12 indeterminate cases; these are not included in the statistical analyses of the clinical categories (n=122).

2

Age at first cancer diagnosis if multiple primaries

3

Percentage not provided due to some participants developing multiple primary cancers.

4

Including invasive breast cancer (n=90) and ductal carcinoma in situ (n=10).

5

Other cancers include: ovarian (n=5), melanoma (n=4), uterine (n=4), renal (n=4), gastric (n=3), pancreatic (n=2), aplastic anemia (n=1), bladder (n=1), cervical (n=1), non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (n=1), parathyroid (n=1), phyllodes (n=1), prostate (n=1), tongue (n=1), and unknown (n=1).

6

TP53 Testing Criteria found in Supplemental table 3

7

χ2 test of independence or Fisher’s exact test on the three clinical categories.

PZM = post-zygotic mosaic; ACE = aberrant clonal expansion