Research Article

Aberrant ARMCX1 Expression Is an Independent Predictor of Poor Prognosis in Gastric Cancer

Table 1

Association between ARMCX1 expression and clinicopathologic characteristics in TCGA and our validation cohort.

TCGA cohortTotalARMCX1 expression
Low expressionHigh expression

Age<6516471935.5040.019
≥6520711592
GenderFemale13466680.0650.799
Male241122119
Tumor gradeG1105511.7470.003
G21378552
G321996124
T stageT11918118.969<0.001
T2803941
T31688979
T41004159
LN metastasisYes2461191272.6390.104
No1116447
Distant metastasisYes2510151.2990.254
No330171159
TNM stageStage I5337168.2780.041
Stage II1115358
Stage III1507476
Stage IV381820
Validation cohort
 Age<652817112.7860.095
≥6524915
 GenderFemale16970.3610.548
Male361719
 Tumor size<5 cm2712150.6930.405
≥5 cm251411
 Tumor gradeG1 + G22512130.0770.781
G3271413
 T stageT1 + T2 + T3258153.9450.047
T427196
 LN metastasisYes241684.9520.026
No281018
 TNM stageStage I/II241684.9520.026
Stage III281018

Italics indicated demonstrated by the chi-square test. Abbreviations: LN: lymph node metastasis.