Table 1. Associations between lncRNA XIST expression and patients’ clinicopathological features.

Variable	No. of patients	XIST low expression	XIST high expression	P value
Age
< 60	45	21	24	0.175
≧ 60	53	32	21
Gender
Male	59	33	26	0.651
Female	39	20	19
Tumor size
< 3 cm	54	36	18	0.006
≧ 3 cm	44	17	27
Lymph node involvement
Absent(pN0)	43	31	12	0.002
Present(pN+)	55	22	33
TNM stage
I-II	50	34	16	0.005
III-IV	48	19	29
Lauren histotype
Intestinal	54	29	25	0.934
Diffuse	44	24	20
HP infection
Yes	58	30	28	0.573
NO	40	23	17