Table 1.
Demographic information on subjects in the discovery phase.
| Demographic variable | Characteristic | Transcriptomic biomarker discovery phasea | miRNA biomarker discovery phaseb | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GC (n = 63) | Non-GC (n = 31) | P value | GC (n = 10) | Non-GC (n = 10) | P value | ||
| Age, years | Mean ± SD | 56.2 ± 11.1 | 54.8 ± 10.4 | 0.56 | 58.4 ± 7.6 | 52.4 ± 7.9 | 0.10 |
| Gender, n (%) | Male | 43 (68.3) | 13 (41.9) | 0.02 | 6 (60.0) | 4 (40.0) | 0.66 |
| Female | 20 (31.7) | 18 (59.1) | 4 (40.0) | 6 (60.0) | |||
| Ethnicity, n (%) | Asian | 63 (100) | 31 (100) | 10 (100) | 10 (100) | ||
| Smoking, n (%) | 27 (42.8) | 5 (16.1) | 0.01 | 3 (30.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.21 | |
| Drinking, n (%) | 28 (44.4) | 9 (29.0) | 0.15 | 4 (40.0) | 5 (50.0) | 1.00 | |
| H. pylori, n (%) | 37 (58.7) | 8 (25.8) | 0.003 | 5 (50.0) | 4 (40.0) | 1.00 | |
a
Transcriptomic profiling (n = 94).
b
miRNA profiling (n = 20).