Table 1. Relationship between AP-2α expression and clinicopathologic features of patients with gastric cancer.

Variables	Number	AP-2α expression		P value
		Low	High
Age(years)				0.192
≤60	270	117	153
>60	211	79	132
Gender				0.446
Male	326	129	197
Female	155	67	88
Tumor size (cm)				0.449
≤5.0	309	122	187
>5.0	172	74	98
Histological grade				0.001*
Well differentiated (G1)	18	3	15
Moderately differentiated (G2)	166	45	121
Poorly differentiated (G3)	297	148	149
Location				0.002*
Proximal	271	106	165
Distant	186	72	114
Total	24	18	6
Radical resection				0.004*
Yes	410	156	254
No	71	40	31
Tumor invasion (T)				0.018*
T1	35	12	23
T2	43	13	30
T3	98	33	65
T4a	256	109	147
T4b	49	29	20
Nodal status (N)				0.006*
N0	135	44	91
N1	94	36	58
N2	107	40	67
N3	145	76	69
Metastasis status (M)				0.008*
M0	425	164	261
M1	56	32	24
TNM Staging				<0.001*
Stage I	50	14	36
Stage II	118	35	83
Stage III	256	114	142
Stage IV	57	33	24

*Statistically significant (P<0.05).