Table 2.
The association between ZNF471 methylation in renal cell carcinoma and clinicopathological features of renal carcinoma patients (n=80)
| ZNF471 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | methylation | unmethylation | Chi-squared test | P-value |
| All patients | (n=58) | (n=22) | ||
| Gender | 0 | 1 | ||
| Male | 29 | 11 | ||
| Female | 29 | 11 | ||
| Age (years) | 0.348 | 0.555 | ||
| ≤60 | 30 | 13 | ||
| >60 | 28 | 9 | ||
| Tumor stage | 4.586 | 0.032 | ||
| T1-T2 | 24 | 15 | ||
| T3-T4 | 34 | 7 | ||
| Tumor size | 0.018 | 0.894 | ||
| ≤5cm | 27 | 12 | ||
| >5cm | 21 | 10 | ||
| Pathologic grade | 0.148 | 0.7 | ||
| G1-G2 | 26 | 13 | ||
| G3-G4 | 22 | 9 | ||