Table 5.
mRNA expression of SCD and SCD5 by sex.
| Sex | Female | Male | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studied Gene/Reference Gene/Location | Median | 1st Quartile | 3rd Quartile | N | Median | 1st Quartile | 3rd Quartile | N | p |
| SCD/ B2M | |||||||||
| GTA | 0.0023 | 0.0013 | 0.0064 | 9 | 0.0009 | 0.0004 | 0.0033 | 9 | 0.233 |
| NC | 0.0004 | 0.0002 | 0.0017 | 8 | 0.0026 | 0.0004 | 0.0193 | 12 | 0.090 |
| PA | 0.0063 | 0.0018 | 0.0207 | 8 | 0.0104 | 0.0019 | 0.0202 | 12 | 1.000 |
| GTA/NC | 3.5421 | 1.0997 | 9.4235 | 8 | 0.2712 | 0.0410 | 1.3336 | 7 | 0.083 |
| SCD/GAPDH | |||||||||
| GTA | 0.0044 | 0.0008 | 0.0107 | 9 | 0.0043 | 0.0017 | 0.0060 | 9 | 0.965 |
| NC | 0.0012 | 0.0005 | 0.0036 | 8 | 0.0078 | 0.0010 | 0.0125 | 12 | 0.105 |
| PA | 0.0092 | 0.0021 | 0.0470 | 8 | 0.0186 | 0.0046 | 0.0468 | 12 | 0.758 |
| SCD5/ B2M | |||||||||
| GTA | 0.0079 | 0.0017 | 0.0432 | 10 | 0.0078 | 0.0016 | 0.0088 | 9 | 0.568 |
| NC | 0.0016 | 0.0006 | 0.0102 | 9 | 0.0121 | 0.0036 | 0.0854 | 12 | 0.201 |
| PA | 0.0054 | 0.0021 | 0.0423 | 9 | 0.0235 | 0.0038 | 0.0654 | 13 | 0.664 |
| GTA/NC | 3.5979 | 1.3722 | 5.6384 | 9 | 0.3880 | 0.1523 | 0.9700 | 7 | 0.063 |
| SCD5/GAPDH | |||||||||
| GTA | 0.0090 | 0.0026 | 0.0199 | 10 | 0.0299 | 0.0046 | 0.0967 | 9 | 0.327 |
| NC | 0.0065 | 0.0012 | 0.0177 | 9 | 0.0235 | 0.0081 | 0.0328 | 12 | 0.320 |
| PA | 0.0085 | 0.0024 | 0.0502 | 9 | 0.0629 | 0.0090 | 0.1460 | 13 | 0.117 |
GTA—growing tumor area; NC—necrotic core; PA—peritumoral area. GTA/NC—the ratio of expression in growing tumor area to expression in necrotic core.