Dysregulation in growth arrest-specific 5 and metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 gene expression predicts diagnosis and renal fibrosis in systemic lupus erythematosus patients

Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics

Table 3 Correlation between GAS5, MALAT1, and clinical and laboratory variables

Variable	Non-nephritis				Nephritis
	Relative expression of GAS5		Relative expression of MALAT1		Relative expression of GAS5		Relative expression of MALAT1
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Age	− 0.052	0.824	− 0.327	0.148	− 0.277	0.252	− 0.002	0.994
Marital status	0.412	0.064	− 0.023	0.921	− 0.138	0.572	− 0.23	0.344
Blood pressure	− .562	0.008*	− 0.214	0.352	− 0.078	0.751	0	1
Hb	0.064	0.782	0.3	0.186	− 0.213	0.382	− 0.079	0.748
RBC	0.174	0.45	0.278	0.222	− 0.02	0.935	− 0.056	0.819
WBC	0.351	0.119	0.169	0.463	0.26	0.282	− 0.067	0.786
Lymphocytes	0.418	0.059	0.051	0.827	0.172	0.482	− 0.074	0.764
PLT	− 0.146	0.529	0.041	0.859	− 0.04	0.871	0.056	0.819
S. creatinine	− 0.152	0.511	0.026	0.912	0.244	0.314	0.353	0.138
Can	0.039	0.868	0.151	0.514	0.12	0.625	0.105	0.67
Ck	0.12	0.605	0.225	0.326	0.196	0.421	0.052	0.833
ANA	0.014	0.953	− 0.017	0.941	− 0.021	0.932	0.009	0.972
Anti.ds.DNA	0.023	0.92	0.116	0.616	0.127	0.603	0.128	0.601
C3	0.126	0.586	0.261	0.253	− 0.069	0.778	0.258	0.286
C4	0.268	0.24	0.405	0.068	− 0.001	0.997	0.256	0.289
UOP	− 0.288	0.205	− 0.188	0.414	0.321	0.18	0.045	0.853
SLEDAI_2K.Score	0.456	0.038*	0.093	0.687	-0.216	0.375	− 0.137	0.576