KPNA2 and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes: Furthermore, we performed a Chi-fang analysis, which revealed that KPNA2 mRNA levels were correlated with lymph node metastasis (p = 0.001) and the Lauren classification (p = 0.000) but not with age, sex, tumor site, or pathological stage of patients with GC (p > 0.05, Table 3).