Table 1 Characteristics of participants of the seven EPITHYR case–control studies used in the gene-, pathway- and network-level analyses.
Study | Cases | Controls | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
N = 1551 | % | N = 1957 | % | |
CATHY | 450 | 29.0 | 533 | 27.2 |
Cuba | 102 | 6.6 | 103 | 5.3 |
Chernobyl | 66 | 4.3 | 304 | 15.5 |
E3N | 276 | 17.8 | 287 | 14.7 |
New Caledonia | 21 | 1.4 | 68 | 3.5 |
French Polynesia | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.2 |
YOUNG-Thyr | 636 | 41.0 | 658 | 33.6 |
Age (years) | ||||
[0–10] | 5 | 0.3 | 43 | 2.2 |
[10–20] | 115 | 7.4 | 301 | 15.4 |
[20–30] | 378 | 24.4 | 425 | 21.7 |
[30–40] | 335 | 21.6 | 382 | 19.5 |
[40–50] | 199 | 12.8 | 239 | 12.2 |
≥ 50 | 519 | 33.5 | 567 | 29.0 |
Mean age [range] | 40.6 [7–83] | – | 37.0 [5–80] | – |
Sex | ||||
Female | 1276 | 82.3 | 1508 | 77.1 |
Male | 275 | 17.7 | 449 | 22.9 |
Histology | ||||
Papillary | 1414 | 91.2 | – | – |
Follicular | 137 | 8.8 | – | – |
