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Table 4 Subgroup-stratified results of HNSCC PRS with significant associations in the UK Biobank

From: Polygenic risk score-based phenome-wide association study of head and neck cancer across two large biobanks

Phenotype description

Younger (age ≤ 60 years)

Elderly (age > 60 years)

Never-smoker

Ever-smoker

(n = 166,624)

(n = 141,868)

(n = 119,038)

(n = 190,562)

OR per SD increase (95% CI)

P-value

OR per SD increase (95% CI)

P-value

OR per SD increase (95% CI)

P-value

OR per SD increase (95% CI)

P-value

HNSCC PRS

 Tobacco use disorder

1.08 (1.06–1.10)

1.54 × 10−13

1.04 (1.02–1.06)

3.77 × 10−4

1.02 (0.94–1.10)

.631

1.06 (1.04–1.07)

3.11 × 10−12

 Alcoholism

1.07 (1.04–1.10)

1.16 × 10−5

1.06 (1.03–1.09)

1.38 × 10−4

1.05 (1.00–1.09)

3.09 × 10−2

1.07 (1.04–1.10)

8.80 × 10−8

 Alcohol-related disorders

1.09 (1.05–1.13)

6.24 × 10−7

1.07 (1.02–1.11)

3.44 × 10−3

1.04 (0.98–1.11)

.149

1.08 (1.05–1.12)

8.20 × 10−8

 Emphysema

1.13 (1.04–1.22)

3.22 × 10−3

1.10 (1.04–1.16)

4.34 × 10−4

1.26 (1.07–1.48)

4.97 × 10−3

1.09 (1.04–1.14)

3.70 × 10−4

 Chronic airway obstruction

1.06 (1.02–1.10)

6.13 × 10−3

1.04 (1.02–1.07)

1.25 × 10−3

0.99 (0.93–1.06)

.864

1.05 (1.02–1.07)

6.61 × 10−5

 Cancer of bronchus; lung

1.06 (0.99–1.14)

7.86 × 10−2

1.09 (1.04–1.14)

1.90 × 10−4

1.05 (1.01–1.09)

.355

1.08 (1.04–1.13)

1.25 × 10−4

  1. All analyses were adjusted by age, sex, genotype array, and PC 1 to 10
  2. Abbreviations: HNSCC head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, PRS polygenic risk score, SD standard deviation, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval, PC principal component