Expression and aberrant promoter methylation of Wnt inhibitory factor-1 in human astrocytomas

Table 2 The relationship between the expression of WIF-1 and clinicopathological features in 53 cases of astrocytoma

Clinical signs	Number of Cases	IHC		RT-PCR
		Scores	P -Value	QT	P -Value
age
<39	26	3.23 ± 2.32	0.35	0.40 ± 0.30	0.23
≥39	27	2.67 ± 2.06		0.31 ± 0.27
sex
male	32	2.84 ± 2.17	0.69	0.33 ± 0.28	0.50
female	21	3.10 ± 2.26		0.38 ± 0.31
Pathological Grading
Low grade(I - II)	23	3.96 ± 2.16	0.002^a	0.50 ± 0.27	0.001^b
High grade(III - IV)	30	2.17 ± 1.90		0.24 ± 0.25

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