Table 1. Differential mRNA z-score expression profiling between the altered cases in association with clinico-pathological parameters in tongue cancer.

			Percentage altered in cohort
S.No	Parameter	Gene	Early stage	Late stage	p-value
1	Clinical stage	JAM2	10.63829787	9.756097561	0.049438
			Positive	Negative
2	PNI	SMURF1	16.12903226	12.82051282	0.040467
3	ALI	LY6E	26.92307692	23.94366197	0.019605
		SUPT16H	15.38461538	7.042253521	0.009972
		MFN1	11.53846154	22.53521127	0.023416