Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 expression in colon cancer and its clinical significance

Table 2 Uncoupling protein 2 mRNA expression in human colon cancer and peritumoral tissue samples detected by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction

Patient No.	Tissue	UCP2 mRNA relative abundance	T/P
1	T	8.12	3.45
	P	2.35
2	T	19.68	5.70
	P	3.45
3	T	13.6	2.96
	P	4.6
4	T	21.4	2.32
	P	9.21
5	T	26.2	3.67
	P	12.7
6	T	78.6	2.51
	P	31.2
7	T	86.5	3.59
	P	24.1
8	T	12.31	6.00
	P	20.5
9	T	45.2	8.85
	P	5.1
10	T	36.1	0.84
	P	42.6
11	T	9.12	2.37
	P	3.85
12	T	3.67	1.78
	P	2.05
13	T	10.34	4.40
	P	2.35
14	T	17.63	5.86
	P	3.01
15	T	6.54	4.47
	P	1.46
Average T/P ratio			3.92

UCP2: Uncoupling protein 2; T: Tumour; P: Peritumoral.