Table II.

Association between clinicopathological factors and miR-454 expression levels in patients with GC.

Variables	No. of patients	miR-454		P-value
		Low	High
Sex				0.857
Male	39	19	20
Female	21	12	9
Age (years)				0.471
<60	18	7	11
≥60	42	24	18
Tumor size (cm)				0.114
<3	36	22	14
≥3	24	11	13
TNM stages				0.012
I-II	27	19	8
III-IV	33	12	21
Lymph nodes metastasis				0.001
Negative (N)	27	22	5
Positive (P)	33	9	24

GC, gastric cancer.