Table 1. Association analysis between clinical parameters and EMT-related gene sets by GSEA.

	EMT up-regulated			EMT down-regulated
Phenotypes1	NES	NOM p-val	FWER p-val2	NES	NOM p-val	FWER p-val
Gender(Male vs Female)	−1.223	0.17	0.209	−1.133	0.247	0.348
Age(≥ 60 ys vs < 60 ys)	1.059	0.35	0.432	−1.128	0.258	0.331
Smoking(≥ 20 pys vs < 20 pys)	−1.196	0.198	0.231	−0.949	0.549	0.609
T(T3&T4 vs T1&T2)	1.054	0.394	0.448	0.729	0.94	0.949
N(N1&N2 vs N0)	1.705	<0.001	<0.001***	0.95	0.552	0.612
TNM Stage(I&II vs III)	1.386	0.068	0.08*	0.664	0.975	0.976
Differ.(P vs M&W)	0.928	0.539	0.648	−1.246	0.142	0.2

¹ ys, years; pys, package years; Differ., tumor differentiation grade; P, Poor; M, Moderate; W, Well. ² *, FWER p value < 0.1; ***, FWER p value < 0.001.