Table 1.

Correlation between circEIF3I expression and clinicopathological characteristics in PTC samples

Clinicopathological charateristics	circEIF3I expression		p-value
	low (n=22)	high (n=26)
Age (Years)			0.771
<45	8	11
≥45	14	15
Gender			0.401
Male	9	14
Female	13	12
Tumor size			0.041*
≤2 cm	14	8
>2 cm	8	18
TNM staging			0.020*
I+II	17	11
III+IV	5	15
Lymph node metastasis			0.042*
Yes	15	9
No	7	17

^* P<0.05 was considered as statistically significant.

Chi-square test was used.