Table 1.

The correlation between clinicopathological features and miR-1296 expression in colorectal cancer

Features		n	miR-1296 expression		P
			High (n=40)	Low (n=40)
Age (years)	<60	37	16	21	0.262
	≥60	43	24	19
Gender	Male	48	22	26	0.361
	Female	32	18	14
Differentiation	Well/Moderately-differentiated	56	24	32	0.051
	Poorly-differentiated	24	16	8
Size (cm)	<5	45	18	27	0.043*
	≥5	35	22	13
Invasion depth	T1+T2	27	10	17	0.098
	T3+T4	53	30	23
Lymph node metastasis	Without	51	21	30	0.036*
	With	29	19	10
TNM stage	I+II	51	20	31	0.011*
	III+IV	29	20	9

TNM: tumor-node-metastasis. ^* Statistically significant.