Table 1.

Correlations Between TRIM44 with Clinicopathologic Features in 197 Melanoma Patients

Variable	Number of Patients		P value*
	TRIM44low	TRIM44high
Age, year
< 60	36	42	0.351
≥ 60	63	56
Gender
Male	49	56	0.282
Female	50	52
Anatomic site
Acra	48	53	0.395
Trunk	22	26
Other	29	21
Histologic type
Superfical spreading	27	19	0.287
Nodular	23	18
Acral	29	40
Lentigo maligna	20	21
Ulceration
Present	15	11	0.416
Absent	84	87
Breslow depth (mm)
≤ 2	49	64	0.025
> 2	50	34
Clark level
I-III	54	53	0.948
IV-V	45	45
Lymph nodes metastasis
No	69	73	0.453
Yes	30	25
Distant metastasis
No	82	66	0.012
Yes	17	32
Clinical stage
I-II	73	51	0.002
III-IV	26	47

Note: A chi-square test was used for comparing groups between low and high TRIM44 expression. *, p < 0.05 was considered significant