Table 1. Correlation of the expression of HOTAIR with clinicopathologic features in gastric cancer.
| Characteristics | N (%) |
HOTAIRa |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | |||
| Gender | 0.295 | |||
| Male | 38 (62) | 17 | 21 | |
| Female | 23 (38) | 7 | 16 | |
| Age | 0.605 | |||
| ≤65 | 31 (51) | 11 | 20 | |
| >65 | 30 (49) | 13 | 17 | |
| Stage | 0.092 | |||
| I–II | 18 (30) | 4 | 14 | |
| III–IV | 43 (70) | 20 | 23 | |
| Lymph node metastasis | 0.05* | |||
| ≤2 | 22 (36) | 5 | 17 | |
| >2 | 39 (64) | 19 | 20 | |
| Vasculature invasion | 0.05* | |||
| Yes | 28 (46) | 18 | 10 | |
| No | 33 (54) | 6 | 27 | |
*P<0.05 was considered significant (chi-square test between the two groups).
a
Fold change (FC; tumor tissues relative to normal tissues) is ≥2.0 for high expression and <2.0 for low expression.