Table 4. Univariate analysis for association between gene profile and clinico-pathological features in the study cohorts.

	(a) RCC
	GAS5			miR-34a
	p ass		r (p corr)	p ass	r (p corr)
Age	0.239		-0.069 (0.598)	0.352	-0.066 (0.619)
Sex	0.631		0.063 (0.635)	0.798	-0.033(0.801)
Location	0.908		-0.015 (0.910)	0.884	0.019 (0.886)
HPD	0.257		0.191 (0.143)	0.504	-0.130(0.321)
Grade	0.402		0.171 (0.192)	0.378	-0.167 (0.204)
Tumor size	0.199		0.157 (0.230)	0.361	-0.152 (0.246)
LN	0.193		0.169 (0.195)	0.258	-0.147(0.261)
Recurrence	0.192		0.170 (0.195)	0.371	-0.116 (0.376)
DFS	0.120		0.305 (0.018)	0.363	0.215 (0.099)
OS	0.266		0.283 (0.029)	0.441	0.191 (0.144)
	(b) GB
Age	0.883		0.063 (0.663)	0.930	-0.013 (0.931)
Sex	0.921		-0.014 (0.922)	0.514	-0.093 (0.520)
Location	0.530		-0.150 (0.300)	0.711	0.091 (0.531)
Recurrence	0.258		0.166 (0.248)	0.070	-0.260 (0.068)
DFS	0.869		0.012 (0.936)	0.677	0.074 (0.609)
OS	0.451		0.48 (0.743)	0.356	0.013 (0.927)
	(c) HCC
Age	0.869	-0.037 (0.848)		0.059	-0.289 (0.121)
Sex	0.553	0.112 (0.556)		0.420	0.156 (0.411)
Hepatomegaly	0.692	-0.079 (0.680)		0.851	0.039 (0.837)
Tumor size	0.226	0.278 (0.137)		0.209	-0.315 (0.090)
Number of lesions	0.193	-0.352 (0.056)		0.916	0.112 (0.225)
CTP class	0.283	-0.206 (0.275)		0.533	0.122 (0.521)
Treatment	0.715	0.144 (0.447)		0.598	0.006 (0.973)

p ass p values for association, r (p corr) correlation spearman's coefficient and p value of correlation, HPD histopathological diagnosis, T tumor size, LN lymph node, DFS disease-free survival, OS overall survival, CTP Child-Turcotte-Pugh classification for liver cell failure. Spearman's rank, Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used. Statistically significant values (p < 0.05) are shown in bold.