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. 2016 Aug 4;16:597. doi: 10.1186/s12885-016-2644-z

Table 2.

Fibrilin-1 expression in TGCTs

		Fibrilin expression
Histological subtype	N	Mean QS	Standard error of the mean	Median QS	p-value^a	Low^b	High^c	p-value^a
Histological subtype	N	Mean QS	Standard error of the mean	Median QS	p-value^a	N (%)	N (%)	p-value^a
GCNIS	70	11.30	0.54	12	NA	16 (22.9)	54 (77.1)	NA
SEM	98	6.11	0.49	3	<0.001	73 (74.5)	25 (25.5)	<0.001
EC	94	4.53	0.37	4	<0.001	83 (88.3)	11 (11.7)	<0.001
YST	22	5.59	0.71	6	<0.001	18 (81.8)	4 (18.2)	<0.001
TER	49	3.37	0.49	3	<0.001	46 (93.9)	3 (6.1)	<0.001
ChC	17	0.41	0.23	0	<0.001	17 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	<0.001
Non-neoplastic testis	85	0.02	0.02	0	<0.001	85 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	<0.001

Note that 64 tumours were mixed germ cell tumours (see text)

Abbreviations: GCNIS germ cell neoplasia in situ, NA not applicable, QS multiplicative quickscore

^aCompared to GCNIS

^bQS 0–9

^cQS 10–18