Table 1.

Correlation between SAE1 protein expression and clinicopathologic characteristics of GC

Parameter	Total (n = 93)	SAE1 expression level		P Value
		High n = 65	Low n = 28
Age (years)
≥ 60	67	45	22	0.357
< 60	26	20	6	-
Gender
Male	59	43	16	0.408
Female	34	22	12
Tumor size
≥ 5	60	42	18	0.976
< 5	33	23	10
Pathological type
Infiltrating	54	39	15	0.865
Elevated	7	5	2
Ulcerative	30	20	10
Grade
I-II	40	32	8	0.065
III	53	33	20
TNM stage
I-II	35	20	15	0.029*
III-IV	56	44	12
Vascular invasion
No	65	41	24	0.029*
Yes	28	24	4
Nerve invasion
No	79	53	26	0.215
Yes	14	12	2
Overall survival
Survive	33	12	21	0.013*
Die	60	37	23

^†High and low expression was determined as total immunohistochemistry scores of 0–3 and 3–12 respectively

^*P < 0.05 was identified as statistically significant