Table 2.
Correlations between AEG-1 expression and clinicopathologic variables of astrocytomas
| Patients | AEG-1 expression | P | Spearman Rank Correlations | ||
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| Variables | n | Negative | Positive | r (P) | |
| Gender | 0.097 | 0.127 (0.098) | |||
| Male | 100 | 40 | 60 | ||
| Female | 72 | 38 | 34 | ||
| Age | 0.758 | 0.070 (0.363) | |||
| <45 | 86 | 36 | 50 | ||
| ≥45 | 86 | 38 | 48 | ||
AEG-1 expression was determined in 172 astrocytomas samples by immunohistochemical staining. Bivariate correlations between study variables were calculated by Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients.