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Table 6 Correlation of epithelial and stromal TWIST1 and MYC expressions in eutopic and ectopic samples

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

Eutopic endometrium

 

TWIST1

total

neg

pos

p-value

Epithelial MYC

neg

26

22

(84.6 %)

4

(15.4 %)

0.002

pos

24

20

(83.3 %)

4

(16.7 %)

Stromal MYC

neg

23

9

(39.1 %)

14

(60.9 %)

0.115

pos

27

6

(22.2 %)

21

(77.8 %)

Ectopic lesions

 

TWIST1

total

neg

pos

p-value

Epithelial MYC

neg

20

10

(50.0 %)

10

(50.0 %)

0.003

pos

48

30

(62.5 %)

18

(37.5 %)

Stromal MYC

neg

57

28

(49.1 %)

29

(50.9 %)

<0.001

pos

11

5

(45.5 %)

6

(54.5 %)

  1. Numbers of patients in each of the indicated subgroups are shown. Numbers in parentheses indicate the fraction of patients (%) in each row negative and positive for TWIST1. All p-values of subgroup comparisons were analyzed by the McNemar Test