Table 2.

Relationship between METTL14 expression and the clinicopathologic features of GC patients

Factors	Cases	METTL14 expression		p
		Low	High
Sex
Male	183	35	148	0.347
Female	65	16	49
Age (years)
≤60	134	22	112	0.080
>60	114	29	85
Tumor location
Upper	34	10	24	0.505
Middle	27	6	21
Lower	130	23	107
Entire	57	12	45
Tumor size (cm)
≤5	182	35	147	0.388
>5	66	16	50
Macroscopic type
Early stage/Borrmann I‐II	171	32	139	0.282
Borrmann III‐IV	77	19	58
Histologic grade
Differentiated	71	13	58	0.578
Undifferentiated	177	38	139
pT stage
T1–T2	74	6	68	0.002
T3–T4	174	45	129
pN stage
N0	91	10	81	0.005
N1–3	157	41	116
M stage
M0	239	46	193	0.020
M1	9	5	4
TNM stage
I–II	117	9	108	<0.001
III–IV	131	42	89

Abbreviations: GC, gastric cancer; TNM, tumor‐lymph node‐metastasis.