Table 1 Correlation between cancer risk and serum selenium concentration in carriers of SEP15 nGG genotype.
From: Selenium (Se) and the risk of breast, ovarian and prostate cancers
BRCA1 gene mutation carriers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Genotype | Se | No | Chi2teste | |||
Cancers | Controls | p | OR | CI | ||
Sep15nGG | <56µg/l | 16 | 6 | 0.0005 | 43 | 2.2-861 |
>95µg/l | 0 | 8 | ||||
Unselected breast cancers carriers | ||||||
Genotype | Se | No | Chi2teste | |||
Cancers | Controls | p | OR | CI | ||
Sep15nGG | <56µg/l | 7 | 5 | 0.009 | 18.2 | 1.8-188 |
>95µg/l | 1 | 13 | ||||