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. 2021 Jun 23;21:231. doi: 10.1186/s12883-021-02233-5

Table 3.

Molecular tests with a significant (p<0.1) association with GS; sorted by OR

Test Method NCBI p (FET) nGS pGS nGB pGB OR 95% CI OR EMT
More positive results in GS vs. GB
CALR CNA CALR 0.038 1/24 4.2% 0/603 0% 0.64 — [9]
NTRK1 F-RNA NTRK1 0.074 1/22 4.5% 1/563 0.2% 25 0.33 — 2100 [10]
LYL1 CNA LYL1 0.075 1/24 4.2% 1/603 0.2% 25 0.32 — 2000 [11]
PTCH1 NGS PTCH1 0.081 1/25 4% 1/582 0.2% 24 0.30 — 1900 [12]
IDH2 NGS IDH2 0.080 1/27 3.7% 1/631 0.2% 23 0.30 — 1900 [13]
SHP-2 NGS PTPN11 0.080 3/47 6.4% 21/1046 2% 3.2 0.61 — 12 [14, 15]
NF1 NGS NF1 0.019 8/25 32% 81/587 2.3% 2.7 1.1 — 7.5 [16]
PD-L1 IHC** CD274 0.0057 15/42 36% 152/902 17% 2.1 1.3 — 5.5 [17, 18]
PD-1 IHC PDCD1 0.014 20/26 77% 211/408 52% 1.5 1.2 — 9.6 [19]
Fewer positive results in GS vs. GB
EGFRvIII FFA 0.02 2/38 5.3% 143/706 20% 0.27 0.03 — 0.88
EGFRvIII FA 0.06 1/24 4.2% 71/349 20% 0.21 0.004 — 1.1
EGFR CNA EGFR 0.0008 2/27 7.4% 231/623 37% 0.20 0.02 — 0.55 [20]
EGFR NGS 0.011 0/47 0% 112/1044 11% 0 0 — 0.69
IDH1 NGS IDH1 0.046 0/47 0% 87/1047 8.3% 0 0 — 0.92

Abbreviations: Test Common name, Method See abbreviations in Table 1; ** = using SP142 antibody, NCBI Hyperlink to NCBI GeneID, given by Official Name, p (FET) probability (p value, Fisher’s exact test), nGS Number of positive results in cases of gliosarcoma (+ve/total), pGS Percentage of positive results in cases of gliosarcoma, nGB Number of positive results in cases of glioblastoma (+ve/total), pGB Percentage of positive results in cases of glioblastoma, OR Odds ratio = pGS/pGB, 95% CI OR 95% confidence interval for OR, EMT Reference(s) supporting the role of gene/protein in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT)