Barely Significant
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The saga of the many studies wrongly associating mitochondrial DNA with breast cancer.

BMC Cancer · 2014 · PMC4180149 · PMID 25199876

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highly significantno p-value reported
According to the authors, the main finding of their study was the detection of a highly significant interaction between the variants 12308G and 10398G, with results suggesting that these variants increase the risk of a woman developing breast cancer.

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marginally significantno p-value reported
The P -value of the two-tailed exact Fisher test for the corresponding 2 × 2 contingency table is 0.0532, thus this could only be considered as marginally significant if assuming a nominal significant value of 0.05.

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