Table I.

Association between miR-25 expression and clinicopathological parameters of patients with cholangiocarcinoma (n=116).

		miR-25 expression
Characteristics	N	Low (n=51)	High (n=65)	P-value
Age (years)				0.887
<60	56	25	31
≥60	60	26	34
Sex				0.733
Male	68	29	39
Female	48	22	26
Differentiation				0.096
Well	65	33	32
Moderate + poor	51	18	33
TNM stage				0.026
I–II	57	31	26
III–IV	59	20	39
Lymph node metastasis				0.032
Negative	53	29	24
Positive	63	22	41

TNM, tumor-nodes-metastasis; miR, microRNA.