VEGFA and gastric neoplasm: Gastric tumours showing the AA genotype of rs10434 (VEGFA), the AC genotype of rs699947 (VEGFA) and the GG genotype of rs7993418 (FLT1) resulted more prone to hematogenous metastases (peritoneal carcinosis vs. hematogenous metastases: 8% vs. 27%, p = 0.02; 30% vs. 59%, p = 0.006 and 2% vs. 16%, p = 0.02 respectively) (table 3).