Table 1. Clinical characteristics of the 64 lung adenocarcinoma patients from whom total RNA from resected non-tumor lung tissue was analyzed by RNA-Seq and of 45 lung adenocarcinoma patients from whom total RNA from non-tumor and tumor lung tissue was analyzed by qPCR (these 45 patients included 6 patients analyzed by RNA-Seq).
| RNA-Seq | qPCR | |
|---|---|---|
| Sex, n (%) | ||
| Men | 50 (78.1) | 34 (75.6) |
| Women | 14 (21.9) | 11 (24.4) |
| Age at surgery, years, mean (SD) | 63.8 (7.3) | 62.6 (10.7) |
| Smoking status, n | ||
| Smoker | 61 | 31 |
| Non-smoker | 1 | 11 |
| Missing | 2 | 3 |
| Stage, n | ||
| I | 55 | 18 |
| II | 3 | 8 |
| III or IV | 5 | 13 |
| Missing | 1 | 6 |