Table II.
Association between SNHG6 expression and clinicopathological characteristics in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
| SNHG6 expression | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical parameters | High (fold-change ≥1) | Low (fold-change <1) | P-valuea |
| Age, years | 0.449 | ||
| ≤64 | 25 | 12 | |
| >64 | 25 | 8 | |
| Sex | 0.451 | ||
| Male | 37 | 13 | |
| Female | 13 | 7 | |
| Smoking | 0.880 | ||
| Yes | 24 | 10 | |
| No | 26 | 10 | |
| Drinking state | 0.508 | ||
| Yes (frequent drinkers) | 41 | 15 | |
| No (never drinkers) | 9 | 5 | |
| Tumor size, cm | 0.040 | ||
| ≤3 | 14 | 12 | |
| 3–5 | 29 | 7 | |
| >5 | 7 | 1 | |
| Tumor stage | <0.01 | ||
| I | 2 | 11 | |
| II | 27 | 4 | |
| III | 21 | 5 | |
a
χ2 P-value. SNHG6, small nucleolar host gene 6.