Table 1.

The association between LINC00978 expression levels (−ΔCt) in tumour tissues and the clinicopathological features of gastric cancer patients

Features	Number	LINC00978 expression		Mean ± SD	P value
		High	Low
Gender
Male	52	39	13	3.31 ± 2.50	0.210
Female	20	12	8	3.29 ± 2.65
Age, years
60	13	9	4	3.55 ± 2.56	1.000
≥60	59	42	17	3.25 ± 2.54
Tumour size (cm)
<5	36	21	15	3.78 ± 2.75	0.020
≥5	36	30	6	2.83 ± 2.12
Differentiationa
Moderate	32	25	7	3.01 ± 2.53	0.173
Poor	38	24	14	3.54 ± 2.58
Lymphatic metastasis
N0	19	9	10	3.54 ± 2.57	0.009
N1‐3	53	42	11	3.22 ± 2.53
Venous or perineural invasion
Absent	47	32	15	3.51 ± 2.43	0.482
Present	25	19	6	2.91 ± 2.70
Invasion depth
T1 and T2	3	1	2	4.27 ± 3.96	0.202
T3 and T4	69	50	19	3.26 ± 2.48
TNM stage
I and II	19	9	10	3.86 ± 2.70	0.009
III and IV	53	42	11	3.10 ± 2.46
Tumour location
Antrum	16	8	8	4.11 ± 2.42	0.195
Body	4	4	0	2.08 ± 1.91
Angulus	7	5	2	3.39 ± 2.72
Cardia	24	17	7	3.33 ± 2.69
Others	21	17	4	2.85 ± 2.48

^aMissing 2 cases.

TNM, tumour‐node‐metastasis.