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Table 1 Characteristic, all, BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, stratified by patients. EBC early breast cancer, ABC advanced breast cancer, HR hormone receptor, HER2 human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; TNBC triple-negative breast cancer, OC: ovarian cancer

From: Prevalence of BRCA1, BRCA2, and PALB2 genomic alterations among 924 Taiwanese breast cancer assays with tumor-only targeted sequencing: extended data analysis from the VGH-TAYLOR study

 

Gene status

Not mutated

Mutated

p Value

BRCA1 (−)

BRCA1 (+)

p Value

BRCA2 (−)

BRCA2 (+)

p Value

PALB2 (−)

PALB2 (+)

p Value

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

Total (N = 879)

749

85.2%

130

14.8%

–

852

96.9%

27

3.1%

–

803

91.4%

76

8.6%

–

833

94.8%

46

5.2%

–

Group

                    

 Retro

48

87.3%

7

12.7%

0.069

53

96.4%

2

3.6%

0.002

50

90.9

5

9.1%

0.454

51

92.7%

4

7.3%

0.604

 Group 1A

506

87.5%

72

12.5%

 

569

98.4%

9

1.6%

 

535

92.6%

43

7.4%

 

533

95.7%

25

4.3%

 

 Group 1B

18

81.8%

4

18.2%

 

21

95.5%

1

4.5%

 

19

86.4%

3

13.6%

 

21

95.5%

1

4.5%

 

 Group 2

91

77.8%

26

22.2%

 

111

94.9%

6

5.1%

 

102

87.2%

15

12.8%

 

109

93.2%

8

6.8%

 

 Group 3–1

33

82.5%

7

17.5%

 

38

95.0%

2

5.0%

 

37

92.5%

3

7.5%

 

36

90.0%

4

10.0%

 

 Group 3–2

53

79.1%

14

20.9%

 

60

89.6%

7

10.4%

 

60

89.6%

7

10.4%

 

63

94.0%

4

6.0%

 

Stage

 EBC

597

85.9%

98

14.1%

0.264

680

97.8%

15

2.2%

0.002

637

91.7%

58

8.3%

0.537

662

95.3%

33

4.7%

0.475

 ABC

152

82.6%

32

17.4%

 

172

93.5%

12

6.5%

 

166

90.2%

18

9.8%

 

171

92.9%

13

7.1%

 

Subtype

 HR+/HER2−

482

85.2%

84

14.8%

0.713

553

97.7%

13

2.3%

0.090

515

91.0%

51

9.0%

0.921

536

94.7%

30

5.3%

0.934

 HR+/HER2+

78

85.7%

13

14.3%

 

88

96.7%

3

3.3%

 

82

90.1%

9

9.9%

 

87

95.6%

4

4.4%

 

 HR−/HER2+

67

88.2%

9

11.8%

 

74

97.4%

2

2.6%

 

70

92.1%

6

7.9%

 

73

96.1%

3

3.9%

 

 TNBC

108

82.4%

23

17.6%

 

122

93.1%

9

6.9%

 

122

93.1%

9

6.9%

 

122

93.1%

9

6.9%

 

 No data

14

93.3%

1

6.7%

 

15

100%

0

0%

 

14

93.3%

1

6.7%

 

15

100.0%

0

0.0%

 

Family history, BC

 No BC family history

550

85.8%

91

14.2%

0.719

622

97.0%

19

3.0%

0.920

590

92.0%

51

8.0%

0.204

609

95.5%

32

5.0%

0.891

 BC family history (+)

133

83.6%

26

16.4%

 

154

96.9%

5

3.0%

 

145

91.2%

14

8.8%

 

149

93.7%

10

6.3%

 

 No data

66

83.5%

13

16.5%

 

76

96.2%

3

3.8%

 

68

86.1%

11

13.9%

 

75

94.9%

4

5.1%

 

Family history, OC

 No OC family history

671

85.9%

110

14.1%

0.002

758

97.1%

23

2.9%

0.679

720

92.2%

61

7.8%

0.011

741

94.9%

40

5.1%

0.857

 OC family history ( +)

8

53.3%

7

46.7%

 

14

93.3%

1

6.7%

 

11

73.3%

4

26.7%

 

13

86.7%

2

13.3%

 

 No data

70

84.3%

13

15.7%

 

80

96.4%

3

3.6%

 

72

86.7%

11

13.3%

 

79

95.2%

4

4.8%

 
  1. Text presented in bold is used to highlight the significance of the p-value