Table 2.

Correlations between the expression of MKRN3 and clinicopathological parameters

Parameters	MKRN3 expression	t value		P-value*
Age
< 59	66.339 ± 54.931	− 0.318		0.751
≥ 59	67.915 ± 57.543
Gender
Female	65.794 ± 60.985	− 0.342	0.733
Male	67.712 ± 54.665
Alcohol consumption
Yes	65.821 ± 53.437	0.044		0.965
No	66.055 ± 59.506
Smoking
Yes	66.190 ± 58.305	− 2.311		0.021
No	77.953 ± 53.935
Histological grade
G1 + G2	70.159 ± 58.499	0.963		0.336
G3 + G4	64.520 ± 47.820
Stage
I + II	52.571 ± 39.396	− 2.928		0.001
III + IV	71.743 ± 62.453
T classification
T1 + T2	62.429 ± 52.840	− 2.348		0.025
T3 + T4	75.098 ± 60.669
Lymph node metastasis
N0	67.450 ± 54.218	− 0.989		0.560
N +	72.227 ± 61.835

The bolditalic values represent P < 0.05

^*P < 0.05 was considered to be statistical significance