Clinical feature	Statistical test	Significant genes	Associated with	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;	Associated with	
Time to Death	Cox regression test	N=0	 	 	 	 
AGE	Spearman correlation test	N=82	older	N=81	younger	N=1
PRIMARY SITE OF DISEASE	Wilcoxon test	N=3092	rectum	N=3092	colon	N=0
NEOPLASM DISEASESTAGE	Kruskal-Wallis test	N=6	 	 	 	 
PATHOLOGY T STAGE	Spearman correlation test	N=2	higher stage	N=2	lower stage	N=0
PATHOLOGY N STAGE	Spearman correlation test	N=29	higher stage	N=20	lower stage	N=9
PATHOLOGY M STAGE	Kruskal-Wallis test	N=1	 	 	 	 
GENDER	Wilcoxon test	N=29	male	N=29	female	N=0
HISTOLOGICAL TYPE	Kruskal-Wallis test	N=3040	 	 	 	 
RADIATIONS RADIATION REGIMENINDICATION	Wilcoxon test	N=0	 	 	 	 
COMPLETENESS OF RESECTION	Kruskal-Wallis test	N=2	 	 	 	 
NUMBER OF LYMPH NODES	Spearman correlation test	N=19	higher number.of.lymph.nodes	N=17	lower number.of.lymph.nodes	N=2
RACE	Kruskal-Wallis test	N=44	 	 	 	 
