Abstract:Objective To study the relationship between the expression of sex determining region Y-box 1(SOX1) and β-catenin in gastric cancer and its correlation with pathological characteristics and long-term prognosis.Methods Gastric cancer tissues and the adjacent tissues which were excised in our hospital during February 2015 to March 2017 were collected. The expression of SOX1 and β-catenin were detected by immunohistochemistry and Western blotting, and the overall survival of the patients was followed up.Results In gastric cancer, the positive rate of SOX1 was significantly lower than those in adjacent tissues (P < 0.05), the positive rate of β-catenin was significantly higher than those in adjacent tissues (P < 0.05), the relative expression of SOX1 was significantly lower than those in adjacent tissues (P < 0.05), the relative expression of β-catenin was significantly higher than those in adjacent tissues (P < 0.05), and the relative expression of SOX1 in gastric cancer was positively correlated with the relative expression of β-catenin (r = 0.347, P = 0.017); in poorly differentiated, TNM III / IV stage, and lymph node metastasis gastric cancer tissues, the positive expression rate of SOX1 was significantly lower than that in middle or high differentiation, TNM I / II stage, and non lymph node metastasis gastric cancer, and the positive expression rate of β-catenin was significantly higher than that in middle and high differentiation, TNM I, II stage, non lymph node metastasis gastric cancer (P < 0.05). Compared with patients with negative expression of SOX1, the overall survival of patients with positive expression of SOX1 was prolonged (P < 0.05); compared with patients with negative expression of β-catenin, the overall survival of patients with positive expression of β-catenin was shorten (P < 0.05).Conclusion The low expression of SOX1 in gastric cancer is related to the high expression of β-catenin, and correlate to pathological characteristics and long-term prognosis.