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Table 3 Associations between PKCα, PKCδ, and PKCε intensity and clinicopathological variables in cohort I and II.

From: PKCα expression is a marker for breast cancer aggressiveness

Cohort

I

  

II

 

Variable

PKCα

PKCδ

PKCε

PKCα

PKCε

NHG

     

ρ

0.401

-0.049

-0.029

0.247

-0.011

p

0.001

0.719

0.833

<0.001

0.863

n

60

57

55

249

263

Estrogen receptor

     

ρ

-0.482

0.210

-0.016

-0.334

0.068

p

<0.001

0.120

0.907

<0.001

0.273

n

59

56

54

244

261

Progesterone receptor

     

ρ

-0.402

-0.081

-0.216

-0.280

0.062

p

0.002

0.554

0.120

<0.001

0.342

n

58

55

53

223

240

Ki-67 positivity

     

ρ

0.535

0.229

0.280

0.295

-0.056

p

<0.001

0.144

0.069

<0.001

0.363

n

46

42

43

244

261

Nodal status

     

ρ

-0.027

0.095

-0.002

0.029

0.028

p

0.842

0.495

0.987

0.666

0.667

n

56

54

52

224

233

Distant metastasis

     

ρ

0.159

0.162

-0.064

0.090

0.037

p

0.226

0.227

0.642

0.159

0.556

n

60

57

55

247

261

  1. ρ: Pearson's correlation coefficient. p < 0.05 in bold. n: number of tumor samples.
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