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Ratios of positive MTA1 expression in different phenotypic CTCs (Chi-square test).
| Phenotype of CTCs | The number of CTCs | Positive expression of MTA1 |
Negative expression of MTA1 |
P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | n | % | n | % | ||
| Epithelial CTCs | 76 | 43 | 56.6% | 33 | 43.4% | <0.0001 |
| Mesenchymal CTCs | 200 | 171 | 85.5% | 29 | 14.5% | |
| Biphenotypic epithelial/mesenchymal CTCs | 368 | 253 | 68.8% | 115 | 31.2% | |
