highly significantP =5.54 × 10 −5
The comparison of patients carrying TP53 mutation ( TP53 -mut) to patients without TP53 mutation ( TP53 -wt) revealed a highly significant association between TP53 mutations and higher age ( P =5.54 × 10 −5 ; median age at sampling 69.3 for TP53 -mut and 62.4 for TP53 -wt; Figure 2a ).