Table 1.

Clinicopathological relevance analysis of MSC‐AS1 from HCC tissue samples

Feather	Patients	MSC‐AS1		P value
		Low expression (<median)	High expression (≥median)
All cases	60	30	30
Age, y				.419
<60	39	17	22
≥60	21	13	8
Gender				.661
Male	44	23	21
Female	16	7	9
Tumor size (cm)				.003
≤5	36	24	12
>5	24	6	18
Tumor number				.432
Solitary	40	25	15
Multiple	20	5	15
TNM stage (I: II: III)				.003
I	22	18	4
II	16	5	11
III	22	7	15
Metastasis				.001
Yes	21	9	12
No	39	21	18

We analyzed the data from 60 HCC patients. For MSC‐AS1 level, the median expression served as the cutoff. Data were analyzed using chi‐squared test. P‐value in bold suggested the statistically significance.