Table IV.

Clinicopathological characteristics of patients with brain tumors and D-Loop mutation status.

	D-loop status, n (%)
Parameter	Total patients, no. (%)	Mutation	No mutation	P-value
No. of patients	49 (100)	25 (51.0)	24 (49.0)
Sex
Male	29 (59.2)	15 (51.7)	14 (48.3)	1.000
Female	20 (40.8)	10 (50.0)	10 (50.0)
Age, years
<45	20 (40.8)	7 (35.0)	13 (65.0)	0.0845
≥45	29 (59.2)	18 (62.1)	11 (37.9)
Ethnicity
Malaysian	42 (85.7)	22 (52.4)	20 (47.6)	0.8716
Chinese	5 (10.2)	2 (40.0)	3 (60.0)
Indian	2 (4.1)	1 (50.0)	1 (50.0)
Histological tumor types (grade)
Pilocytic astrocytoma (I)	6 (12.2)	2 (33.3)	4 (66.7)	0.1282
Astrocytomas (II)	2 (4.1)	0 (0)	2 (100)
Anaplastic astrocytomas (III)	5 (10.2)	2 (40.0)	3 (60.0)
Glioblastomas multiform (IV)	16 (32.7)	12 (75.0)	4 (25.0)
Ependymoma	2 (4.1)	1 (50.0)	1 (50.0)
Oligodendroglioma	3 (6.1)	0 (0)	3 (100)
Meningioma (I)	15 (30.6)	8 (53.3)	7 (46.7)