Table 1.

Correlations Between circCD151 Expression and Clinicopathologic Features in 88 Melanoma Patients

Variable	Number of Patients		p-value*
	circCD151low	circCD151high
Age, year
<60	16	20	0.874
≥60	24	28
Gender
Male	24	27	0.723
Female	16	21
Anatomic site
Acra	29	37	0.388
Trunk	4	7
Other	7	4
Ulceration
Present	6	10	0.480
Absent	34	38
Breslow depth(mm)
≤2	19	12	0.028
>2	21	36
Clark level
I-III	24	18	0.035
IV-V	16	30
Lymph nodes metastasis
No	30	32	0.394
Yes	10	16
Distant metastasis
No	35	40	0.221
Yes	5	8
Clinical stage
I-II	34	33	0.075
III-IV	6	15

A chi-square test was used for comparing groups between low and high circCD151 expression

* p < 0.05 was regarded as statistically significant