Sex and frequency of CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP)
| Cohort | No of methylated loci | CIMP | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ⩾4 | |
| Cases of men were derived from the Health Professional Follow up Study (n = 51 500 men) and cases of women were from the Nurses’ Health Study (n = 121 700 women). | |||||||
| *Men versus women, p = 0.02. | |||||||
| Men | 77 | 40 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 20/172 (12%)* |
| Women | 136 | 46 | 30 | 18 | 22 | 36 | 58/288 (20%)* |