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Table 1 Correlation to disease staging.

From: Gene expression of circulating tumour cells and its correlation with tumour stage in breast cancer patients

Analyzed gene

I

Disease Staging

IIa-IIb

> IIIa

p-value

ga733.2

0/18%

1/16 6.3%

7/27 25.9%

0.009

muc-1

0/18%

1/16 6.3%

9/27 33.3%

0.002

spdef

0/17%

2/15 13.3%

5/25 20%

0.057

mgb1

0/16%

1/15 6.7%

4/23 17.4%

0.063

ga733.2 / muc-1

0/18%

2/16 12.5%

10/27 37%

0.001

simple positive

0/16%

4/15 26.7%

11/23 47.8%

0.001

twofold positive

0/16%

1/15 6.7%

9/23 39.1%

0.001

  1. Correlation between gene expression and disease staging. Patients were stratified in groups I, IIa-IIb and IIIa or higher. Simple and twofold positivity of the gene profile ga733.2/muc-1/mgb1/spdef are shown (Pearson's bivariate correlation).