Validation of genome-wide association study-identified single nucleotide polymorphisms in a case-control study of pancreatic cancer from Taiwan

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the pancreatic cancer patients and control subjects

Characteristics	Cases N = 278 n (%)	Controls N = 658 n (%)	P-value^a
Age (years)
Mean (SE)	62.1 (0.4)	58.4 (0.6)	< 0.0001
Sex
Men	164 (59.0)	282 (42.9)	< 0.0001
Women	114 (41.0)	376 (57.1)
Education
≦ Junior high	134 (48.2)	191 (29.0)	< 0.0001
High school/technical school	84 (30.2)	178 (27.1)
College	50 (18.0)	229 (34.8)
Graduate school	10 (3.6)	60 (9.1)

Abbreviations: N number, SE standard error
^aP-values were generated using T-tests (for continuous variables) or chi-squared tests (for categorical variables)

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