Table I.

Clinical correlation of miR-381 expression in GC (n=60).

	miR-381
Clinical characteristics	High expression n=24	Low expression n=36	χ2	P-value
Gender			0.104	0.793
Male	15	21
Female	9	15
Age (year)			0.100	0.797
<50	11	18
≥50	13	18
Hp infection			3.665	0.068
Yes	10	24
No	14	12
Lymphatic metastasis			5.602	0.031a
Yes	10	26
No	14	10
Histological grade			0.909	0.430
I+II	9	18
III+IV	15	18
TNM stage			9.074	0.003a
I+II	20	16
III+IV	4	20

Hp, Helicobacter pylori; TNM, tumor-node-metastasis.

^aP<0.05.