Table 1 Clinical association between ZNF132 expression and clinicopathological variables in BC patients
|  |  | ZNF132 expression | χ2 test P- value | Correlation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Variable | Number | Low | High | r | P-value | |
Age | ||||||
  ≤ 60 | 611 | 289 | 321 | 0.053 | −0.046 | 0.123 |
 >60 | 493 | 263 | 231 |  |  |  |
HER2 | ||||||
 Negative | 652 | 292 | 360 | 0.001 | −0.135 | 0.000 |
 Positive | 114 | 70 | 44 |  |  |  |
ER | ||||||
 Negative | 179 | 111 | 68 | 0.000 | 0.209 | 0.000 |
 Positive | 601 | 266 | 335 |  |  |  |
PR | ||||||
 Negative | 255 | 157 | 98 | 0.000 | 0.236 | 0.000 |
 Positive | 522 | 216 | 306 |  |  |  |
Tumor size | ||||||
 T1 | 282 | 121 | 161 | 0.006 | −0.125 | 0.000 |
 T2-T4 | 819 | 429 | 390 |  |  |  |
Lymph node metastasis | ||||||
 No | 516 | 420 | 465 | 0.003 | −0.056 | 0.064 |
 Yes | 568 | 118 | 81 |  |  |  |
Distant metastasis | ||||||
 No | 964 | 464 | 450 | 0.233 | −0.044 | 0.170 |
 Yes | 22 | 14 | 8 |  |  |  |
Clinical stage | ||||||
 I | 183 | 80 | 103 | 0.058 | −0.084 | 0.006 |
 II--IV | 899 | 462 | 437 |  |  |  |