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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2012 Apr 24;55(6):1799–1808. doi: 10.1002/hep.25569

Table 1.

Clinical and Pathological Characteristic of 62 HCC Patients with Tissue DNA Methylation Array Data and 8 Additional Cases with only Plasma DNA Data

Cases with Array Data Cases with Only Plasma Data

Variables Mean ± SD Mean ± SD

Age at diagnosis 52.2 yr ± 14.2* 53.0±11.5

N (%) N (%)

Gender
 Male 54 (87) 7 (100)
 Female 8 (13) 0

Viral status
 HBV (−) and HCV (−) 7 (11) 0
 HBV (+) and HCV (−) 36 (58) 7 (88)
 HBV (−) and HCV (+) 6 (10) 0
 HBV (+) and HCV (+) 13 (21) 1 (12)

Cigarette smoking
 No 25 (40) 2 (25)
 Yes 24 (39) 4 (50)
 Missing 13 (21) 2 (25)

Alcohol drinking
 No 41 (66) 8 (100)
 Yes 8 (13) 0
 Missing 13 (21) 0

AFB1-DNA adducts in tumor tissues
 High to Medium 37 (60)
 Low 25 (40)

AFB1-DNA adducts in non-tumor tissues
 High to Medium 15 (24)
 Low 15 (24)
 Missing 32 (52)
*

Age missing for five subjects

Data missing for one subject