TABLE 1.

Relationship between circ-MFN2 expression and clinicopathologic features of colorectal cancer patients.

		circ-MFN2 expression
	Characteristics n = 50	Low (n = 16)	Medium (n = 17)	High (n = 17)	P-valuea
Gender					0.6911
Female	21	8	7	6
Male	29	8	10	11
Age (years)					0.6904
≤60	18	7	6	5
>60	32	9	11	12
TNMgrade					0.011*
I + II	28	13	10	5
III + IV	22	3	7	12
Lymph node metastasis					0.010*
Positive	32	6	11	15
Negative	18	10	6	2
Tumor size					0.0033*
≤3 cm	19	11	6	2
>3 cm	31	5	11	15

TNM, tumor-node-metas-tasis; *P < 0.05.

^aChi-square test.