Abstract:Objective To investigate the clinical value of DLEC1 gene expression and its methylation in nasal inverted papilloma (NIP) and its relationship with Ki-67 expression. Methods Thirty NSCLC tissues were collected as NIP group and 20 nasal mucosa tissues as control group. Methylation specific polymerase chain reaction (MSP) was used to detect the methylation of the DLEC1 gene promoter region. The expression of DLEC1 and Ki-67 was detected by immunohistochemistry. Results The methylation ratio of DLEC1 gene promoter in NIP tissues was 43.3%, which was higher than that in normal tissue (2.0%) (P?0.05). The negative rate of DLEC1 in the NIP group (76.7%) was higher than that in the control group (45.0%) (P?0.05), and the positive rate of Ki-67 in the NIP group (60.0%) was significantly higher than that in the control group (10.0%) (P?0.05); the correlation between the expression of DLEC1 and Ki-67 in NIP tissue was negatively correlated (P?0.05). Conclusions Methylation of DLEC1 gene promoter is highly expressed in NIP patients, and the express of DLEC1 is downregulated in NIP and negatively correlated with Ki-67.