Table 1.

The correlations between circ-MAT2B expression and clinicopathological features in GC patients (n = 120)

Parameters	All cases	CIRC-MAT2B expression		P value
		Low	High
Gender
Male	98	48	50	0.637
Female	22	12	10
Age (years)
≤ 60	48	23	25	0.709
> 60	72	37	35
Tumor size
≤ 5	69	44	25	0.000
> 5	51	16	35
Lymph node metastasis
No	54	34	20	0.01
Yes	66	26	40
TNM stage
I–II	50	32	18	0.016
III–IV	70	28	42
Differentiation grade
Well-moderate	68	37	31	0.269
Poor-undifferentiation	52	23	29