Research Paper Volume 12, Issue 24 pp 24651—24670

Figure 6. Quantification of MZT2B (A), CDC16 (B) and UBE2T (C) mRNA and protein levels by tumor stage in GC of the diffuse intestinal. *p <0.008, **p <0.001, ***p <0.0002, ****p <0.0001 significant difference between groups (Nonparametric Mann – Whitney test). In all graphs, the expression in gastric tumors was normalized by matched non-neoplastic gastric tissue. RQ: relative quantification; T: tumor sample; N: normal mucosa sample. (D) ROC curve analysis. The cutoff point was chosen as the highest point of the Area-Under-the-Curve (AUC) for MZT2B, AUC: 0.803; (95% CI 0.69-0.82) with 84.2% sensitivity and 50.0% specificity, for CDC16, AUC: 0.798; (95% CI 0.69-0.82) with 86.0% sensitivity and 49.08% specificity and for UBE2T, AUC: 0.549; (95% CI 0.51-0.68) with 52.03% sensitivity and 47.05% specificity. (E) Heat maps showing the average levels of gene expression of ~30 samples of GC tissues of the intestinal-type. The red gradient shows the highest levels of expression while the blue gradient shows the lowest levels. Kaplan-Meier analysis of the overall survival (in months) of patients with gastric cancer of the intestinal-type as a function of the expression of (F) MZT2B, (G) CDC16 and (H) UBE2T. We analyzed high expression (gene expression ≥1.45; red line), as opposed to low expression (gene expression <1.45; blue line) associated with a higher probability of survival. We found more significant values only for high expression of CDC16 (p <0.0085) when associated with the lower shortest patient survival.