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Table 5 Epithelial and stromal TWIST1 and MYC expressions in the eutopic and ectopic endometrium of the same patient

From: Enhanced epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) and upregulated MYC in ectopic lesions contribute independently to endometriosis

  

Ectopic TWIST1

total

neg

pos

p-value

Eutopic Epithelial TWIST1

neg

42

15

(35.7 %)

27

(64.3 %)

<0.001

pos

5

3

(60.0 %)

2

(40.0 %)

Eutopic Stromal TWIST1

neg

19

10

(52.6 %)

9

(47.4 %)

0.664

pos

28

12

(42.9 %)

16

(57.1 %)

 

Ectopic MYC

total

neg

pos

p-value

Eutopic Epithelial MYC

neg

14

7

(50,0 %)

7

(50,0 %)

0.180

pos

15

2

(13.3 %)

13

(86.7 %)

Eutopic Stromal MYC

neg

15

14

(93.3 %)

1

(6.7 %)

0.006

pos

14

11

(78.6 %)

3

(21.4 %)

  1. Numbers of patients in each of the indicated subgroups are shown. Numbers in parentheses indicate the fraction of patients (%) in each row in ectopic endometriotic lesions negative and positive for TWIST or MYC. All p-values of subgroup comparisons were analyzed by the McNemar Test