Table 1 Relationship between intratumoral Linc-GALH expression and clinicopathologic features

From: The long non-coding RNA Linc-GALH promotes hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis via epigenetically regulating Gankyrin

Characteristics

Linc-GALH expression

P value

Low(N = 54)

High(N = 54)

Age(years)

  

0.564

 <50

25

28

 

 ≥50

29

26

 

Gender

  

0.588

 Male

47

45

 

 Female

7

9

 

AFP(ng/ml)

  

0.380

 ≤20.0

16

12

 

 > 20.0

38

42

 

Tumor size(cm)

  

0.121

 ≤5

28

20

 

 > 5

26

34

 

 HbsAg

  

0.375

 Negative

8

5

 

 Positive

46

49

 

 Anti-HCV

  

0.647

 Negative

51

52

 

 Positive

3

2

 

Liver cirrhosis

  

0.505

 Yes

39

42

 

 No

15

12

 

Vascular invasion

  

0.012*

 Yes

20

33

 

 No

34

21

 

Intrahepatic metastasis

  

0.040*

 Yes

8

17

 

 No

46

37

 

Distant metastasis

  

0.021*

 Yes

2

9

 

 No

52

45

 

Edmondson

  

0.186

 I-II

17

11

 

 III-IV

37

43

 
  1. The median expression level of Linc-GALH was used as the cutoff
  2. *Indicates P value < 0.05
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