TABLE 1.

Clinical characteristics of patients with NPC and healthy controls

	RNA sequencing set (N = 21)	PCR validation set (N = 100)
Gender
Male	16	68
Female	5	32
Age (years)	45.29 ± 11.71	43.52 ± 12.72
T stage
T1	4	12
T2	4	18
T3	3	9
T4	5	21
N stage
N0	3	12
N1	5	24
N2	4	15
N3	4	9
Clinical stage
I	2	5
II	6	18
III	2	12
IVa	6	25
EBV DNA detection (>400 copies/ml)	8	35