Table 1 Relationship between TINCR expression and the clinical pathological indexes of HCC.

From: The long noncoding RNA TINCR promotes self-renewal of human liver cancer stem cells through autophagy activation

Clinical pathological indexes

Validation Cohort (89 cases)

Low

High

P

Age (years)

≤54

19

26

0.055

> 54

27

17

Gender

Male

39

34

0.335

Female

7

9

Albumin

≤35 g/L

42

35

0.164

> 35 g/L

4

8

Child-Pugh classification

A

32

32

0.393

B

14

11

AFP (ng/ml)

≤20

38

30

0.074

> 20

8

13

Liver cirrhosis

Absent

29

33

0.120

Present

17

10

Tumor size (cm)

≤5

25

22

0.465

> 5

21

21

Tumor number

Single

37

34

0.541

Multiple

9

9

Venous invasion

Absent

42

31

0.018*

Present

4

12

Tumor differentiation

I-II

31

33

0.229

III-IV

15

10

TNM stage

I-II

42

32

0.032*

III

4

11

  1. HCC Hepatocellular carcinoma, SD Standard deviation, HBsAg Hepatitis B surface antigen, AFP A-fetoprotein. *Significant difference (p < 0.05) is shown in bold.