Table 1.

Correlation between lncRNA XIST expression and clinicopathological features of glioma patients

Parameters	Total	XIST expression		P value
		Low expression	High expression
Age (years)				0.182
<50	8	2	6
>50	22	7	15
Gender				0.306
Male	16	5	11
Female	14	4	10
Clinical grade				0.014*
Low grade I-II	9	6	3
High grade III-IV	21	3	18
Tumor size (cm)				0.751
<4.5	17	6	11
>4.5	13	3	10
Tumor nodule number				0.230
Multiple	5	1	4
Single	25	8	17

XIST, X inactivate-specific transcript; lncRNA, long non-coding RNA;

^*P<0.05.