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Table 3 Correlation analyses between clinicopathological factors and total length of copy number aberrations in breast cancers.

From: Significance of genomic instability in breast cancer in atomic bomb survivors: analysis of microarray-comparative genomic hybridization

 

Mean total length of

copy number aberrations (bp)

Clinical factors

All cases

(n = 28)

A-bomb survivors (n = 15)

 

r*

P -value*

r*

P -value*

Age at the time of diagnosis

-0.37

0.055

-0.59

0.021

Tumor size (cm)

0.042

0.83

-0.25

0.37

Storage time (years)

0.35

0.064

0.49

0.067

DLRSpread

-0.40

0.034

-0.38

0.16

Age of the time of exposure to the A-bomb**

  

-0.31

0.25

Exposure distance from the hypocenter (km)**

  

0.11

0.70

Time between age at diagnosis and exposure (year)**

  

-0.52

0.047

  1. *Pearson's correlation coefficient. **Only among A-bomb survivors