Table 2. Expression of stemness genes in biopsies of breast tumors.

Genes		No metastasis (n = 66)	Yes metastasis (n = 32)	p-value		No metastasis (n = 66)	Yes metastasis (n = 32)	p-value
OCT3	Before NAC	5.98 ± 2.89	12.31 ± 8.15	0.366	After NAC	10.63 ± 5.01	64.12 ± 35.68	0.040
SMO		0.57 ± 0.09	0.80 ± 0.14	0.167		0.80 ± 0.15	1.53 ± 0.43	0.047
MYC		0.41 ± 0.04	0.72 ± 0.16	0.012		0.63 ± 0.10	1.94 ± 0.78	0.020
SNAI2		0.49 ± 0.08	0.73 ± 0.16	0.144		0.99 ± 0.15	1.77 ± 0.43	0.035
KLF4		0.76 ± 0.12	1.07 ± 0.28	0.224		2.21 ± 0.44	3.82 ± 2.47	0.378
BMI1		2.14 ± 0.37	4.07 ± 0.75	0.011		34.63 ± 31.93	8.06 ± 3.55	0.565
VIM		0.30 ± 0.04	0.41 ± 0.06	0.137		0.69 ± 0.11	1.56 ± 0.59	0.049
FLT3		2.49 ± 0.50	2.18 ± 0.85	0.746		2.59 ± 0.76	4.52 ± 1.60	0.218
SMAD2		0.19 ± 0.03	0.37 ± 0.27	0.338		0.35 ± 0.06	0.32 ± 0.12	0.778
KLF1		0.29 ± 0.08	0.31 ± 0.10	0.864		0.44 ± 0.22	0.53 ± 0.33	0.811
TERT		0.43 ± 0.10	1.26 ± 0.61	0.061		0.35 ± 0.07	1.53 ± 0.68	0.016
TGFB1		1.00 ± 0.14	1.63 ± 0.38	0.062		1.61 ± 0.26	3.08 ± 0.95	0.047
TGFBR1		0.85 ± 0.13	1.02 ± 0.19	0.458		1.22 ± 0.17	1.99 ± 0.79	0.201