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Table 1 Characteristics of the gastric cancer (GC) study population

From: A functional polymorphism in the DNA methyltransferase-3A promoter modifies the susceptibility in gastric cancer but not in esophageal carcinoma

Variables

Controls (n= 346)

GC cases (n= 208)

Pvalue †

Age (years)

  

0.115

≤60

141 (40.8)*

99 (47.6)

 

>60

205 (59.2)

109 (52.4)

 

Gender

  

0.182

Male

243 (70.2)

157 (75.5)

 

Female

103 (29.8)

51 (24.5)

 
  1. *Numbers in parentheses, percentage.
  2. † P value for chi-squared test.
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