Table 1.
Clinicopathological variables and HOTAIR/miR-126 expression level.
| HOTAIR | miR-126 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Number | Low, n | High, n | P-value | Low, n | High, n | P-value |
| Sex | 0.846 | 0.409 | |||||
| Female | 23 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 10 | ||
| Male | 31 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 17 | ||
| Age, years | 0.816 | 0.413 | |||||
| ≥30 | 25 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 11 | ||
| <30 | 29 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 16 | ||
| Tumor size, cm | 0.918 | 0.580 | |||||
| <5 | 32 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 17 | ||
| ≥5 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 10 | ||
| Histological grade | 0.033 | 0.021 | |||||
| I | 12 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 2 | ||
| II | 20 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 11 | ||
| III | 22 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 14 | ||
| Distant metastasis | 0.001 | 0.001 | |||||
| No | 34 | 24 | 10 | 11 | 23 | ||
| Yes | 20 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 4 | ||
| AJCC staging | 0.015 | 0.003 | |||||
| I/II | 25 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 18 | ||
| III/IV | 29 | 20 | 9 | 20 | 9 | ||
miR, microRNA; AJCC, American Joint Committee on Cancer (8th edition).