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=35	older	N=8	younger	N=27
PRIMARY SITE OF DISEASE	Wilcoxon test	N=190	rectum	N=190	colon	N=0
NEOPLASM DISEASESTAGE	Kruskal-Wallis test	N=102	 	 	 	 
PATHOLOGY T STAGE	Spearman correlation test	N=210	higher stage	N=197	lower stage	N=13
PATHOLOGY N STAGE	Spearman correlation test	N=366	higher stage	N=267	lower stage	N=99
PATHOLOGY M STAGE	Kruskal-Wallis test	N=470	 	 	 	 
GENDER	Wilcoxon test	N=10	male	N=10	female	N=0
HISTOLOGICAL TYPE	Kruskal-Wallis test	N=1424	 	 	 	 
RADIATIONS RADIATION REGIMENINDICATION	Wilcoxon test	N=0	 	 	 	 
COMPLETENESS OF RESECTION	Kruskal-Wallis test	N=628	 	 	 	 
NUMBER OF LYMPH NODES	Spearman correlation test	N=240	higher number.of.lymph.nodes	N=161	lower number.of.lymph.nodes	N=79
RACE	Kruskal-Wallis test	N=11	 	 	 	 
