Table II.

Correlation between miR-200a expression level and clinical features of glioma patients.

		Cancer tissue			Serum
Clinical feature	n	Relative expression level of miR-200a	P-value	t-value	Relative expression level of miR-200a	P-value	t-value
Age (years)
≤50	29	0.41±0.08	>0.05	0.1218	0.35±0.04	>0.05	0.9015
>50	16	0.45±0.03			0.36±0.07
Sex
Male	19	0.40±0.11	>0.05	0.9145	0.32±0.06	>0.05	0.3419
Female	26	0.47±0.06			0.36±0.02
Pathological grade
III	12	0.53±0.05	<0.05	0.0126	0.39±0.05	<0.05	0.0063
IV	33	0.33±0.04			0.28±0.03
Tumor diameter (cm)
≤5	30	0.51±0.07	<0.05	0.0083	0.34±0.04	<0.05	0.0168
>5	15	0.42±0.09			0.26±0.04
Tumor location
Frontal lobe	16	0.41±0.06	>0.05	1.2462	0.31±0.06	>0.05	0.8761
Temporal lobe	20	0.39±0.04			0.29±0.03
Occipital lobe	9	0.43±0.04			0.33±0.01