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Table 2 Risk of BRCA2 associated cancers in descendants of most distant ancestor carrying the 13q haplotype1

From: No evidence of BRCA2 mutations in chromosome 13q-linked Utah high-risk prostate cancer pedigrees

Pedigree Identifier

# descendants

Cancer type

# of observed cancers

# of expected cancers

p-value

9775803

380

Breast

1

1.41

0.755

  

Prostate

9

2.15

0.0004

9445402

206

Breast

2

0.79

0.188

  

Melanoma

2

0.27

0.031

  

Prostate

6

0.70

0.00009

99902052

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

9434307

1,863

Breast

5

5.36

0.621

  

Melanoma

4

2.25

0.190

  

Prostate

22

7.13

0.000006

  

Ovary

1

0.88

0.585

9435901

204

Breast

1

0.73

0.516

  

Melanoma

1

0.30

0.261

  

Prostate

5

1.17

0.007

  1. 1 The following cancers were considered to be BRCA2 associated cancers: breast, prostate, ovarian, pancreatic, and melanoma.
  2. 2Pedigree 9990205 was contributed from a collaborator outside of Utah, and does not link to the UPDB. The number of cancers in descendants from this pedigree cannot be determined.