High Expression of the Long Noncoding RNA SNHG15 in Cancer Tissue Samples Predicts an Unfavorable Prognosis of Cancer Patients: A Meta-Analysis

Table 4

Correlation between SNHG15 expression and other clinicopathological parameters in TCGA.

Clinicopathological parameters	Number of cases; (n = 3430)	SNHG15 expression		value
		High (n = 1787)	Low (n = 1643)
Gender				0.637
Male	1734	896	838
Female	1696	891	805
TNM stage				0.014
III-IV	1090	602	488
I-II	2340	1185	1155
Lymph node metastasis				<0.001
Yes	1593	996	597
No	1837	791	1046
Distant migration				<0.001
Yes	215	161	54
No	3215	1626	1589

Median expression level was used as the cutoff. For analysis of the correlation between SNHG15 levels and clinical features, Pearson's chi-square tests were used. Results were considered statistically significant at .