Expression of a LINE-1 endonuclease variant in gastric cancer: its association with clinicopathological parameters

Table 2 GCRG213 expression in gastric tissue samples

Groups	Number	GCRG213 expression
Groups	Number	Overall score^‡				PR^§(%)
		0-1	2-3	4-5	6
non-tumoral gastric epithelia	112	112	0	0	0	0.00
Intestinal metaplasia	34	3	18	11	2	91.18 ^*
Low-/high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia	28	1	17	10	0	96.43 ^*
adenocarcinoma without LNM ^†	100	26	50	21	3	74.00 ^*
adenocarcinoma with LNM	75	16	40	16	3	78.67 ^*
tumor metastatic to lymph node	67	16	42	8	1	76.12 ^*

^† LNM Lymph node metastasis; ^‡ Overall score calculated as (intensity score) plus (percent cells positive score) as described in methods; ^§ PR Positive rate.
^* Compared with non-tumoral gastric mucosa, p < 0.001.

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