Table 4. Demonstration of median, interquartiles and p values of non-normally distributed continuous variables in the gene expression data in pre- and post-operative tissue and blood samples and control blood samples.
| PTEN gene expression | Significance
(Blood Samples) ‡ |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood
(n=22) |
Tissue
(n=22) |
Control (n=22) | PreOp
vs. Control |
PostOp
vs. Control |
|
| PreOp | 0.89
(0.47, 3.49) |
0.83
(0.76, 1.50) |
1.03
(0.41, 1.91) |
0.814 | 0.742 |
| PostOp | 0.80
(0.20, 2.13) |
1.55
(0.97, 2.23) |
|||
| Sig. (p) † | 0.072 | 0.053 | N.A. | ||
*
Summarized using median (quartiles). N.A.: Not applicable.
†
PreOp versus Post Op comparisons via Wilcoxon test.
‡
Versus control comparisons for blood samples via Mann-Whitney U test.