Identification of Combinations of Plasma lncRNAs and mRNAs as Potential Biomarkers for Precursor Lesions and Early Gastric Cancer

Table 3

Correlation between RNA CEBPA-AS1, INHBA-AS1, AK001058, UCA1, PPBP and RGS18 panel expression levels in PLGC plasma and clinical parameters.

Clinical parameters	No. of cases	p value
		CEBPA-AS1	INHBA-AS1	AK001058	UCA1	PPBP	RGS18
Age (yr)
≤60	55	0.058	0.003	0.037	0.001	0.024	0.317
>60	64
Sex
Male	89	0.996	0.962	0.032	0.355	0.061	0.024
Female	30
Extent of disease#
<2 cm	22	0.141	0.088	0.156	0.256	0.185	0.317
≥2 cm	8

 < 0.05,  < 0.01; # indicates that the analysis is carried out in an incomplete data environment. PLGC, precursor lesions of gastric cancer.