Fig. 4

Stage-associated genes. The sections of a, b, e, and f indicate stage-descending prognostic genes (P indicates Kruskal-Wallis test p-value). The sections of c, d, g, and h indicate stage-ascending prognostic genes (P indicates the Kruskal-Wallis test P-values).  The sections of i, k, and m indicate box-plots for the outset-cancer group; The t-test P-values (P) were reported. the sections of j, l, and n indicate Kaplan-Meier curves and P-values for the Log-Rank test. Patients were separated by the median value of a gene. ‘Low’ indicates gene expression lower than the median and ‘High’ indicated the gene expression higher than the median. In all parts the significance level was 0.05