Table 2.

Correlation between nuclear area, percentages of ploidy, proliferation and parameters of DNA-hypomethylation.

	Hyperploidy		Aneuploidy		Proliferation index		Chr1 Sat2 hypomethylation		Chr1 Sata hypomethylation		LINE1 DNA- hypomethylation
	ρ	P	ρ	P	ρ	P	ρ	P	ρ	P	ρ	P
Nuclear Area	0.84	<0.001	0.60	<0.001	0.69	<0.001	0.40	0.001	0.22	0.07	0.47	<0.001
Hyperploidy			0.70	<0.001	0.55	<0.001	0.15	0.21	0.05	0.66	0.22	0.06
Aneuploidy					0.40	0.001	0.19	0.11	0.09	0.47	0.21	0.09
Proliferation index							0.41	0.001	0.20	0.1	0.36	0.002
Chr1 Sat2 hypomethylation									0.65	<0.001	0.63	<0.001
Chr1 Satα hypomethylation											0.44	<0.001

Note: Spearman rank correlation analysis was performed.

Abbreviations: ρ, Spearman rank correlation coefficient.