Table 1. The clinical characteristics of COAD patients in the TCGA dataset.

Variables	Number of cases
Total	459
Age (years)
<60 / ≥60	126/333
Gender
Male/Female	216/243
Stage
I/II/III/IV/NA	76/177/129/65/11
T
T0/T1/T2/T3/T4	1/11/78/313/56
N
N0/N1/N2	270/106/83
M
M0/M1/NA	337/65/57