Table 3.

Spearman rank correlation between the cDNA-array and the RTQ-PCR measurements

	Spearman correlation
Gene	ra	Pb
ESR1	0.93	0.0003
FOS	0.89	0.0006
IGFBP4	0.86	0.0008
MET	0.82	0.003
SNCG	0.78	0.005
BCL2	0.38	NS (0.14)

^aSpearman rank correlation coefficient. ^bP value (Spearman rank correlation test) was considered significant when P < 0.05. NS, not significant.