A-B. Correlation of MCU and MCUb expression levels with breast cancer clinical stages. Median-centered log2 mRNA expression levels of MCU and MCUb were collected from the TCGA breast cancer dataset (http://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/docs/publications/brca_2012/). Data were plotted and analysed against tumor size (T1-T4) (A) and regional lymph node infiltration (N0-N3) (B), according to the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (7th edition). Linear regression analysis with different stages was implemented. Parameters of linear regression are shown. Number of samples for each stage are shown in parentheses. 