Table 2.
Relationship between ATM promptor methylation and clinicopathology parameters in healthy controls and cases.
| Characteristics | Controls N = 57 |
ATM methylation status | P value | Cases N = 84 |
ATM methylation status | *P value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present N (%) |
Absent N (%) |
Present N (%) |
Absent N (%) |
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| Mean age | 39.07 ± 14 | 54.14 ± 18 | ||||||
| < 50 | 46 | 36(78.26) | 10(21.74) | 0.3 | 26 | 23(88.46) | 3(11.54) | 0.103 |
| > 50 | 11 | 8(72.72) | 3(27.28) | 58 | 51(87.93) | 7(12.07) | ||
| Sex | ||||||||
| Male | 21 | 17(80.95) | 4(19.05) | 0.6 | 40 | 34(85) | 6(15) | 0.404 |
| Female | 36 | 27(75) | 9(25) | 44 | 40(90.90) | 4(9.1) | ||
| Stage | ||||||||
| I | 18 | 16(88.88) | 2(11.12) | 0.465 | ||||
| II | - | - | - | - | 18 | 15(83.32) | 3(16.68) | |
| III | 43 | 38(83.36) | 5(11.64) | |||||
| IV | 5 | 5(100) | 0 | |||||
*Chi-square test