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

Table 4

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

Clinical parameters	Number of cases	p -value
		CEBPA-AS1	INHBA-AS1	AK001058	UCA1	PPBP	RGS18
Age (yr)
≤60	59	0.721	0.630	0.150	0.990	0.122	0.314
>60	84
Sex
Male	110	0.535	0.350	0.862	0.399	0.956	0.848
Female	33
Tumour size#
cm	56	0.957	0.972	0.460	0.812	0.397	0.581
≥3 cm	16

# indicates that the analysis is carried out in an incomplete data environment. EGC, early gastric cancer.