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From: Validity and prognostic significance of sperm protein 17 as a tumor biomarker for epithelial ovarian cancer: a retrospective study

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Sp17 RNA expression is upregulated in borderline ovarian cancers. Sp17 mRNA expression was analyzed from two publically available patient tumor Oncomine datasets. a Sp17 mRNA levels are significantly increased in borderline ovarian serous adenocarcinoma when compared to ovarian serous adenocarcinoma (p < 0.001) in Anglesio et al. dataset [18]. b Sp17 mRNA levels are significantly increased in borderline ovarian serous adenocarcinoma when compared to ovarian adenocarcinoma (p < 0.001) in Tothill et al. dataset [17] (c) No significant difference in Sp17 expression is seen between grades of ovarian adenocarcinoma (p = 0.42) [17]. Box encompasses 25th–75th percentile, solid black line indicates median and error bars indicate range. Numbers in parentheses indicate number of cases included in the analysis

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