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Table 4.

The correlation of MMP-2-1306C/T polymorphism with clinicopathological features of gastric cancer

Clinicopathological features	Cases			P	CC+CT^* (n)	P	CT+TT^** (n)	P

	CC	CT	TT
Tumor diameter
< 5 cm	75	19	0	0.41	94	0.182	19	0.755
≥ 5 cm	125	32	3	0.41	157	0.182	35	0.755
Infiltration depth
Unbroken-through serosal layer	39	10	1	0.836	49	0.55	11	0.887
Broken-through serosal layer	161	41	2	0.836	202	0.55	43	0.887
Lymphatic metastasis
No metastasis	51	13	2	0.271	64	0.106	15	0.735
Metastasis existed	149	38	1	0.271	187	0.106	39	0.735
TNM staging of tumor
0-І	28	6	0	0.952	34	0.897	6	0.712
II	45	9	1		54		10
III	59	15	1		74		16
IV	68	21	1		89		22

compared with TT;

^**

compared with CC;

TNM, tumor node metastasis.