Development and Validation of an Autophagy-Related Gene Signature for Predicting the Prognosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Table 1

Clinicopathological characteristics of the TCGA training group, the TCGA testing group, and the entire TCGA dataset.

Variables	Entire dataset	Training group	Testing group	value
	Age (years)	61.0 (52.0-69.0)	61.0 (52.0-68.0)		62.0 (51.0-69.8)	0.487
Gender, male/female	248/119	125/58	123/61	0.765
AJCC stage, I/II/III/IV/NA	171/85/83/4/24	86/51/37/1/8	85/34/46/3/16	0.090
Histologic grade, G4/G3/G2/G1/NA	55/176/119/12/5	25/89/61/5/3	30/87/58/7/2	0.897
Survival status, alive/dead	237/130	113/70	124/60	0.258
Survival time (months)	19.7 (11.3-36.3)	18.9 (11.4-34.5)	20.8 (10.6-40.0)	0.758

Notes: AJCC: American Joint Committee on Cancer; TCGA: The Cancer Genome Atlas.