Table I.

Association between TMEM229A expression and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

		TMEM229A expression
Variables	N=189	Low	High	χ2	P-value
Sex				0.058	0.810
Female	90	53	37
Male	99	60	39
Age				1.883	0.170
>65	88	48	40
≤65	101	65	36
Smoking history				0.690	0.406
Ever	95	54	41
Never	94	59	35
Tumor size (cm)				0.009	0.925
>3.0	54	32	22
≤3.0	135	81	54
Histological type				0.707	0.863
Squamous cell carcinoma	47	28	19
Adenocarcinoma	141	94	57
Large cell carcinoma	1	1	0
Tumor differentiation				3.627	0.043
Well/Moderate	146	82	64
Poor	43	31	12
Lymphatic invasion				7.062	0.008
Present	66	48	18
Absent	123	65	58
Cancer thrombus				6.354	0.012
Present	78	55	23
Absent	111	58	53
Stage				4.217	0.040
I+II	115	62	53
III+IV	74	51	23

TMEM229A, transmembrane protein 229A.