Table 1.

Correlation between circ-SLCO1B7/miR-139-5p expression and clinical pathologic characteristics.

Characteristics	Case	circ-SLCO1B7		χ2	p	miR-139-5p		χ2	p
		low	high			low	high
All cases	136	68	68			68	68
Age (years)
<60	82	39	43	0.491	0.483	42	40	0.123	0.726
≥60	54	29	25			26	28
Gender
Male	80	39	41	0.121	0.727	42	38	0.486	0.486
Female	56	29	27			26	30
Smoking
No	51	24	27	0.282	0.595	28	23	0.784	0.376
Yes	85	44	41			40	45
Tumor size (cm)
<3	81	51	30	13.463	<0.001*	35	46	3.694	0.055
≥3	55	17	38			33	22
T grade
T1-T2	90	58	32	22.207	<0.001*	35	55	13.140	<0.001*
T3-T4	46	10	36			33	13
N grade
N0-N1	92	61	31	30.237	<0.001*	34	58	19.352	<0.001*
N2-N3	44	7	37			34	10
Differentiation
Well	85	48	37	3.796	0.051	30	55	19.608	<0.001*
Moderate-Poor	51	20	31			38	13

*Significant association.