Figure 1

Real-time quantitative RT-PCR analysis of DUSP-9 expression. The relative expression of DUSP-9 mRNA in RCC tumor tissue samples was lower than that in the paired adjacent normal (N) tissue samples (n = 46, P < 0.001). The bottom and the top of the box represent the 25^th and the 75^th percentile, respectively, and the band near the middle of the box is the 50^th percentile (the median). The ends of the whiskers represent the 2.5^th percentile and the 97.5^th percentile.