Table I.

Relationship between miR-149-5p expression and the clinicopathological characteristics of MTC patients.

		miR-149-5p
Characteristics	Cases	High	Low	P-value
Sex				0.655
Male	16	6	10
Female	20	5	15
Tumor size				0.222
>5 cm	19	7	12
≤5 cm	17	5	12
Distant metastases				0.043a
Present	11	4	7
Absent	25	10	15
Lymph node metastasis				0.086
Present	13	5	8
Absent	23	10	13
TNM stage				0.013a
I/II	21	8	13
III/IV	15	6	9

Statistical analyses were performed by the χ² test.

^aP<0.05 was considered significant.