Table 3.

Expression of target genes in patients with clear-cell renal-cell carcinoma characterized by high/low visceral adiposity

	Low visceral adiposity	High visceral adiposity	P^a	P^b
mRNA expression (× 100)	(N = 100)	(N = 100)
	Frozen tissue
FOXC2	17.011 ± 33.556	7.896 ± 14.304	0.014	0.003
CLIP4	17.158 ± 32.455	9.365 ± 12.712	0.027	0.121
PBRM1	8.950 ± 11.257	7.032 ± 8.787	0.181	0.249
SETD2	1.476 ± 2.153	2.077 ± 2.316	0.059	0.759
BAP1	18.530 ± 59.910	1.649 ± 6.515	0.006	0.201
KDM5C	1.744 ± 2.704	1.954 ± 5.187	0.720	0.508
AQP1	1.283 ± 1.486	1.958 ± 0.981	< 0.001	0.008
DDX11	10.196 ± 10.477	1.890 ± 2.875	< 0.001	< 0.001
BAIAP2L1	3.007 ± 4.574	2.403 ± 3.139	0.277	0.051
TMEM38B	4.627 ± 7.711	7.055 ± 12.656	0.103	0.382
	Plasma
FOXC2	16.708 ± 11.659	16.235 ± 8.215	0.740	0.705
CLIP4	16.848 ± 22.763	17.631 ± 22.080	0.805	0.895
PBRM1	2.452 ± 2.180	5.751 ± 41.896	0.417	0.099
SETD2	1.339 ± 1.690	2.346 ± 1.388	< 0.001	0.512
BAP1	98.325 ± 357.418	43.885 ± 244.658	0.210	0.633
KDM5C	13.468 ± 19.377	6.992 ± 9.286	0.003	0.776
AQP1	12.095 ± 19.380	8.017 ± 16.235	0.108	0.286
DDX11	5.484 ± 11.271	2.641 ± 2.657	0.016	0.081
BAIAP2L1	9.706 ± 15.835	4.965 ± 11.904	0.018	0.140
TMEM38B	17.087 ± 21.024	22.035 ± 33.570	0.213	0.523

Data are shown as the means ± standard deviations

^aP values determined using Student’s t-test for univariate analysis

^bP values determined using logistic regression for multivariate analysis