Table 2. Candidate mRNAs in tissues*.
Gene symbol | Tissue mRNA array | Tissue real-time PCR expression data | |||
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(normal vs. BC) | Normal controls | BC | |||
P-value | -fold change | (expression level, × 104 copies/μg) Median (IQR)a | (expression level, × 104 copies/μg) Median (IQR)a | P-valueb | |
CDC20 | 0.001 | 3.9323197 | 6.2 (2.8–19.8) | 32.0 (9.0–77.2) | 0.011 |
IQGAP3 | 0.001 | 3.3673384 | 2.6 (1.6–10.4) | 86.6 (32.6–201.9) | <0.001 |
TOP2A | 0.001 | 3.2166836 | 6.7 (3.8–24.6) | 428.0 (143.3–1030.3) | <0.001 |
UBE2C | 0.001 | 2.9033677 | 111.9 (82.8–140.7) | 340.1 (161.5–643.6) | 0.003 |
* These tissue mRNAs were chosen because they showed the greatest increase in expression in bladder cancer tissue compared with control tissue in microarrays.
IQR, interquartile range; BC, bladder cancer.
a Copy number of corresponding transcripts (per μg of total RNA) used for cDNA synthesis.
b Mann-Whitney U test.