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. 2017 Oct 2;14(6):5321–5328. doi: 10.3892/etm.2017.5248

Table I.

LncRNA HOTAIR expression and the clinicopathological features of the patients with OS.

HOTAIR expression (no. of patients)

Variable No. of patients (%) Low (%) High (%) P-value
Age (years) 0.795
  <20 34 (100) 16 (47) 18 (53)
  ≥20 26 (100) 14 (54) 12 (46)
Gender 0.599
  Male 38 (100) 22 (58) 16 (42)
  Female 22 (100) 11 (50) 11 (50)
Tumor size (cm) 1.000
  ≥10 20 (100) 10 (50) 10 (50)
  <10 40 (100) 19 (48) 21 (52)
Tumor grade 0.035
  I   9 (100)   7 (78)   2 (22)
  II 15 (100)   6 (40)   9 (60)
  III 36 (100) 11 (31) 25 (69)
Distant metastasis 0.007
  Absent 37 (100) 27 (73) 10 (27)
  Present 23 (100)   8 (35) 15 (65)

Tumor grading was defined according to the World Health Organization classification system (30). HOTAIR, Hox transcript antisense intergenic RNA.