SOAT1 and gastric cancer: Furthermore, the protein expression of SOAT1 in the GC cohort was significantly correlated with LNM status (p = 0.001), TNM stage (p = 0.029) and differentiation degree (p = 0.006); however, SOAT1 expression had no statistically significant correlation with depth of invasion (p = 0.195), distant metastasis (p = 0.328), tumor diameter (p = 0.697) or histological type (p = 0.366) (Supplementary Table S2).