Table 3.

Bivariate correlations (Spearman’s rank test; r_s) of HERV-K or HERV-F mRNA expression with several clinicopathological and molecular parameters.

		rs	p	n
HERV-K mRNA	Tumor diameter	-0.309	0.001	120
	BCL2 mRNA expression	-0.408	0.0002	77
	miR-210 expression	0.399	0.001	71
	miR-203 expression	0.199	0.098	70
	HIF-1a mRNA expression	0.444	3.0 × 10-6	102
	miR-199a expression	0.361	0.0004	94
	H2A.Bbd expression	0.456	0.0009	68
	HERV-F mRNA expression	0.499	6.4 × 10-9	120
HERV-F mRNA	Tumor diameter	-0.467	7.4 × 10-8	120
	BCL2 mRNA expression	-0.207	0.071	77
	miR-210 expression	0.366	0.002	71
	miR-203 expression	0.333	0.005	70
	HIF-1a mRNA expression	0.359	0.0002	102
	miR-199a expression	0.116	0.264	94
	H2A.Bbd expression	0.302	0.012	68
	HERV-K mRNA expression	0.499	6.4 × 10-9	120

Significant p-values are marked in bold.