Figure 1.

The expression of miR-212 and its prognostic significance in HCC.

Notes: (A) Comparing differences in the expression levels of miR-212 between HCC (T) and matched adjacent nontumor tissues (NT), *P<0.05. (B and C) According to the level of miR-212 expression, Kaplan–Meier 5-year overall and disease-free survival curves of HCC patients showed that low expression of miR-212 was correlated with poor prognosis. The median expression value obtained for miR-212 of the 86 HCC samples detected by qRT-PCR was chosen as the cut off value.

Abbreviations: HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; miR-212, microRNA 212; qRT-PCR, quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.