Table 1.

The association between miR-29a expression and clinicopathological characteristics of included patients

Clinicopathological characteristics	No. of patients	miR-29a expression		P
		High	Low
WHO grade				< 0.05
I	7	6	1
II	7	5	2
III	7	3	4
IV	9	3	6
Age				0.518
< 50	14	8	6
≥ 50	16	9	7
Gender				0.728
Male	16	8	8
Female	14	8	6
Location
Supratentorial	18	10	8	0.469
Infratentorial	12	5	7
Tumor size
< 3 cm	13	7	5	0.065
≥ 3 cm	17	11	6

The median expression level of lncRNA- was used as the cutoff