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Table 2.

Promoter Hypermethylation in normal and cancerous liver tissues

Gene	Normal (n=25)	HCC (n=40)	P-Value^*
APC	12 (48%)	31 (78%)	0.01
CCND2	14 (56%)	26 (65%)	0.47
CDKN2A	0 (0%)	18 (45%)	<.0001^**
GSTP1	13 (52%)	24 (60%)	0.53
HOXA9	2 (8%)	15 (38%)	0.0085
RARB	0 (0%)	2 (5%)	0.52^**
RASSF1	1 (4%)	10 (25%)	0.04^**
RUNX	0 (0%)	7 (18%)	0.04^**
SFRP1	0 (0%)	4 (10%)	0.15^**
TWIST1	0 (0%)	4 (10%)	0.15^**

Chi-Square

^**

Fisher’s Exact Test