a strong trend toward significancep = 0.051
The statistical analysis of the IC revealed a strong trend toward significance between the expression of tumour and healthy samples ( p = 0.051) ( Figure 3 B).
The statistical analysis of the IC revealed a strong trend toward significance between the expression of tumour and healthy samples ( p = 0.051) ( Figure 3 B).
Furthermore, we found that piR-162725 could identify 14% of patients that were negative for CA19-9, which supports its potential role as a diagnostic biomarker However, the association between tumour stages (early and advanced) and the positive expression of piR-162725 did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.444).
The data integration and analysis after validation with human tissues revealed a highly significant association between one common piRNA and untransformed cells or tissues ( pir-366845 ) and a high statistical significance for two common piRNAs with tumour samples ( piR-168112 and piR-162725 ) ( Figure 1 D).