From: Incorporation of subject-level covariates in quantile normalization of miRNA data
Covariate | Summary |
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Gender | 54 % male, 46 % female |
Recent aspirin/NSAID use | 64 % no, 36 % yes |
Recent smoker | 83 % no, 17 % yes |
(among women) menopause | 12 % pre, 88 % post |
(among post-menopausal women) | Â |
taking HRT within 2 years | 30 % yes, 70 % no |
Data collection center | 79 % Kaiser, 21 % Utah |
Race | 81.6 % White, 8.5 % Hispanic, |
 | 7.6 % Black, 2.1 % other |
Smoking status | 13 % current, 45 % former, |
 | 42 % never |
Long-term alcohol consumption | 38 % none, 35 % moderate, |
 | 27 % high |
SEER summary stage | 1 % in situ, 34 % localized, 52 % |
 | regional, 12 % distant, 1 % unknown |
AJCC severity stage | 1 % 0 (in situ), 26 % 1, 31 % 2, 30 % 3, |
 | 12 % 4 (distant) |
Colon or rectal cancer | 76 % colon, 24 % rectal |