Reduced expression of lamin A/C correlates with poor histological differentiation and prognosis in primary gastric carcinoma

Table 1 Correlations between lamin A/C expression detected by real time RT-PCR and pathological variables in 30 cases of GC

Variables	Number of Cases	Fold Change (mean ± SD)	t	p-Value
Invasion
Profound layer	24	0.77 ± 0.19	-0.692	0.495
Superficial layer	6	0.83 ± 0.19
Differentiation
Poor	21	0.73 ± 0.19	-2.376	0.025^a
Well or Moderate	9	0.90 ± 0.13
Metastasis
No	23	0.76 ± 0.18	-0.792	0.435
Yes	7	0.83 ± 0.23
Tumour Size (cm)
< 5	18	0.83 ± 0.18	1.704	0.099
≥5	12	0.71 ± 0.20

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