Table 5.

Correlation between the expression of studied genes in blood of non-metastatic and metastatic BC patients.

		E- cadherin	N- cadherin	Snail	Vimentin	CACNA1G	CACNA1H
Non-metastatic
E- cadherin	rs
	p
N- cadherin	rs	-0.161
	p	0.486
Snail	rs	-0.126	0.198
	p	0.596	0.365
Vimentin	rs	-0.468	-0.150	0.109
	p	0.058	0.515	0.658
CACNA1G	rs	0.449	-0.085	0.172	-0.488
	p	0.071	0.723	0.494	0.055
CACNA1H	rs	-0.354	-0.204	0.059	0.090	-0.026
	p	0.115	0.329	0.790	0.699	0.912
CACNA1I	rs	0.231	0.165	0.137	-0.292	0.426	-0.143
	p	0.313	0.431	0.533	0.199	0.061	0.494

Metastatic
E. cadherin	rs
	p
N. cadherin	rs	0.382
	p	0.087
Snail	rs	0.504∗	0.816∗
	p	0.023∗	<0.001∗
Vimentin	rs	0.306	-0.092	0.282
	p	0.203	0.717	0.257
CACNA1G	rs	0.307	0.565∗	0.397	-0.109
	p	0.231	0.023∗	0.128	0.688
CACNA1H	rs	0.403	0.549∗	0.491∗	-0.154	0.422
	p	0.063	0.010∗	0.024∗	0.517	0.081
CACNA1I	rs	0.127	-0.137	0.053	0.322	-0.287	0.013
	p	0.582	0.565	0.825	0.178	0.264	0.953

r_s: Spearman coefficient.

p: p value.

^∗Statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05.