Long Noncoding RNA GATA3-AS1 Promotes Cell Proliferation and Metastasis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Suppression of PTEN, CDKN1A, and TP53

Table 1

The correlations between lncRNA GATA3-AS1 expression and clinicopathologic variables in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Variables	Cases	GATA3-AS1		χ^2
		Low	High
Gender
Male	51	19	32	0.442	0.506
Female	29	13	16
Age (years)
<55	35	17	18	1.905	0.168
≥55	45	15	30
Tumor size (cm)
<5	26	16	10	7.445	0.006
≥5	54	16	38
Differentiation
Low	46	17	29	1.838	0.372
Moderate	29	14	15
High	5	1	4
Liver cirrhosis
No	23	9	14	0.010	0.920
Yes	57	23	34
Lymph node metastasis
No	41	25	16	14.626	<0.001
Yes	39	7	32
Venous invasion
No	18	10	8	2.342	0.126
Yes	62	22	40
TNM stage
I + II	27	17	10	8.954	0.003
III + IV	53	15	38

LncRNA: long noncoding RNA, GATA3-AS1: GATA3 antisense RNA 1. .