Clinical Significance of Survivin Expression in Patients with Urothelial Carcinoma

Table 3

Relationship between survivin expression and the –31 G/C polymorphism.

	Expression level in tumor tissues^a			P value^b
	Low n (%)	Moderate n (%)	High n (%)
–31 C/G polymorphism
G/G	5 (55.6)	6 (27.3)	8 (32.0)	0.041*
C/C + C/G	4 (44.4)	16 (72.7)	17 (68.0)
Total	9 (100.0)	22 (100.0)	25 (100.0)

^∗𝑃<0.05. ^aPercentage of survivin (+) cells: low, 0–5%; moderate, 5–50%; high, >50%. ^bChi-square test.