Table 1.

Correlation between miR-214 expression and clinicopathologic features of patients with osteosarcoma.

Parameters	Total	No. of patients†		Fisher exact test
		High miR-214	Low miR-214	P-value
Gender				0.442
Male	20	12	8
Female	10	4	6
Age				0.713
≤ 16.5	17	10	7
>16.5	13	6	7
Histology				0.769
Osteoblastic	19	9	10
Chondroblastic	6	4	2
Fibroblastic	5	3	2
Differentiation				0.292
Well differentiation	5	4	1
Moderately differentiation	12	4	8
Poorly differentiation	11	7	4
Other	2	1	1
Location of Primary Tumor
Femur	16	10	6	0.494
Tibia	11	5	6
Other	3	1	2
Lung metastasis				0.026*
Present	16	12	4
Absent	14	4	10

^*P < 0.05 vs. lung metastasis absent.

^†The median expression of miR-214 in osteosarcoma tissues was used as a cutoff to divide samples into high or low subgroup.