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Table 1 TUG1 (taurine upregulated gene 1) expression and clinicopathologic factors (n = 120)

From: The long non-coding RNA TUG1 indicates a poor prognosis for colorectal cancer and promotes metastasis by affecting epithelial-mesenchymal transition

Characteristics

All cases

TUG1 expression levels

Tumor high expression

Tumor low expression

P value

Age

   

0.512

 <60

61

38

23

 

 ≥60

59

33

26

 

Gender

   

0.761

 Male

80

60

20

 

 Female

40

29

11

 

Grade

   

0.027*

 Well and moderately

86

14

72

 

 Poorly differentiated

34

20

14

 

Depth of tumor

   

0.034*

 m, sm, mp

30

27

3

 

 ss, se, si

90

65

25

 

Lymph node-metastasis

   

0.013*

 Negative

70

23

47

 

 Positive

50

35

15

 

Liver metastasis

 Negative

95

25

70

0.01*

 Positive

25

18

7

 

Dukes’ stage

 A and B

69

50

19

0.234

 C and D

51

36

15

 
  1. Tumor high expression, the relative expression level of TUG1 is fivefold than para-carcinoma tissue. Tumor low expression, the relative expression level of TUG1 is less than fivefold than para-carcinoma tissue
  2. *Difference is statistically significant