Table 3.

The correlations between gene expression of homologous recombination (HR) and non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) pathways and clinical characteristics of esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC) patients in GSE53624 dataset.

	Gender	Age	TNM stage	N stage	T stage	Drinking status	Smoking status
XRCC3	0.814	0.582	0.582	0.582	0.518	0.706	0.697
XRCC2	0.480	0.713	0.855	0.359	0.670	0.451	0.697
TOP3A	0.814	0.098	0.043	0.142	0.829	0.348	0.175
SLX1A	0.632	1.000	0.855	1.000	0.829	0.059	0.697
SHFM1	0.097	0.141	0.713	1.000	0.829	0.188	0.847
RBBP8	0.814	1.000	0.855	0.582	0.394	1.000	0.562
RAD52	1.000	0.855	0.359	0.464	1.000	0.706	0.697
RAD51	0.814	1.000	0.582	1.000	0.200	0.348	0.081
RAD50	0.632	0.462	0.855	0.272	0.829	0.573	0.847
PALB2	0.814	1.000	0.359	0.272	0.518	0.091	0.562
NBS1	0.632	0.141	0.462	0.855	1.000	0.573	0.333
MUS81	1.000	0.270	0.582	0.464	1.000	0.851	0.242
MRE11	0.632	0.713	0.855	0.714	0.394	0.451	0.697
GEN1	0.480	0.855	0.855	0.272	0.130	1.000	0.562
EME1	0.632	0.462	0.855	1.000	0.518	0.348	0.333
BRIP1	0.632	0.270	1.000	0.272	0.280	0.573	0.562
BRCA2	0.238	0.141	0.855	0.855	0.200	1.000	0.562
BRCA1	0.238	0.713	1.000	0.855	0.518	0.091	0.081
BLM	1.000	0.855	1.000	0.359	0.394	0.451	0.562
BARD1	0.814	0.855	0.199	0.066	1.000	1.000	0.847
RAD51B	1.000	0.359	0.043	0.142	1.000	0.348	0.847
RAD54B	0.480	1.000	0.270	0.855	0.518	0.573	0.033
WRN	0.814	0.713	0.855	0.272	0.518	0.091	0.033
XRCC6	0.337	0.359	0.582	0.714	1.000	1.000	1.000
XRCC5	0.632	1.000	0.582	0.027	0.280	0.573	0.175
XRCC4	1.000	0.582	0.582	0.464	1.000	0.851	0.847
PRKDC	0.814	1.000	0.855	0.142	0.280	0.573	0.081
POLM	0.480	0.270	0.359	0.714	1.000	0.851	1.000
POLL	1.000	0.855	0.359	0.272	0.829	0.573	0.847
NHEJ1	0.632	0.359	0.359	0.272	0.051	0.706	0.847
LIG4	0.337	0.141	0.582	1.000	0.200	1.000	0.242
TP53BP1	0.337	0.199	0.582	0.464	0.670	0.573	0.847

Statistically significant P values were in bold.