Prognostic significance of BMP and activin membrane-bound inhibitor in colorectal cancer

Table 2 Correlation between BAMBI expression and β-catenin/p53 expression

			BAMBI expression1
			Weak (n)	Strong (n)	P2
β-catenin3	Low	Negative	8	6
		Weak	19	10
	High	Moderate	24	14
		Strong	29	38	0.035
p533	Negative		55	36
	Positive		25	3	0.049
			80 (54.1%)	68 (45.9%)

¹BAMBI expression was scored as described in the Methods;

²Mann-Whitney test; < 0.05 was considered statistically significant;

³β-Catenin/p53 expression were scored as described in the Methods.