. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 12.

Published in final edited form as: J Proteomics Bioinform. 2014 Sep 12;7(10):296–302. doi: 10.4172/jpb.1000332

Table 1.

Case characteristics^*.

	Normal (n=15)	Cirrhosis (n=21)	Early-stage HCC (n=67)	Late-stage HCC (n=82)	p-value
Age (yr)	28.5 ± 14.1	50.7 ± 8.7	51.2 ± 9.2	51.0 ± 12.5	<0.0001^†a
Gender
M	8	19	56	67	0.0289^†b
F	7	2	11	15	0.0289^†b
Onset of hepatitis (yr)		16.3 ± 11.7	13.1 ± 9.4	16.0 ± 10.8	0.6054^a
Histological grade
Grade 1			6	8	0.0830^b
Grade 2			46	49
Grade 3			8	20
Grade 4			0	0

Plus-minus differences are mean ± SD

^†

p<0.05

p-value by ANOVA

p-value by chi-square test