Table II.

Relationship between expression level of TBX3 gene in renal carcinoma tissues and clinicopathologic characteristics.

	TBX3 gene expression
Clinicopathologic characteristics	Positive (n)	Negative (n)	P-value
Age (years old)			0.198
<60	41	45
≥60	64	60
Sex			0.121
Male	69	71
Female	36	34
TNM staging			0.008a
I+II	56	90
III+IV	49	15
Lymph node metastasis			0.012a
Yes	74	11
No	31	94
Pathological grading			0.097
Middle and high	53	57
Low	52	48
Tumor size			0.061
<7	45	66
≥7	60	39
Pathological typing			0.135
Clear cell carcinoma	79	86
Non-clear cell carcinoma	26	19

^aP<0.05.