In epithelial cancers, aberrant COL17A1 promoter methylation predicts its misexpression and increased invasion

Clinical Epigenetics

Table 3 Collagen XVII α1 expression in relation to lymph node status in cervical cancer

Variable	Total	Lymph node-negative:	Lymph node-positive:	p value^a
Variable	Total	Stained positive (%)	Stained positive (%)	p value^a
Squamous cell carcinoma	325	242/295 (82)	28/30 (93)	0.0860
Adenocarcinoma	27	16/24 (67)	3/3 (100)	0.3313
Adenosquamous carcinoma	3	0/1 (0)	2/2 (100)	0.3333
All cancers	355	258/320 (81)	33/35 (94)	0.0293

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