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Table 3 MSP qualitative results in patient group samples

From: KLK10 exon 3 unmethylated PCR product concentration: a new potential early diagnostic marker in ovarian cancer? - A pilot study

MSP

Normal samples

Tumor samples

Benign patient

Malignant patient

Benign patient

Malignant patient

Methylated-specific PCR

  Positive

0

0

0

1b

  Negative

7

6

14

15

p-value

–

0.341a

Unmethylated-specific PCR

  Positive

7

6

14

15

  Negative

0

0

0

1b

p-value

–

0.341a

  1. - not applicable
  2. aχ2 test
  3. bThe two odd results in the malignant samples belonged to two samples; one was doubly positive (ovarian serous adenocarcinoma) and the other was doubly negative (Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor) for the two MSP test types
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Journal of Ovarian Research

ISSN: 1757-2215

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