Table 1.

Relevance analysis of circ-GALNT16 expression in CRC patients (n = 100)

Variables	All patients	circ-GALNT16		P value
		Low	High
All Cases	100	50	50
Age (years)
<60	35	16	19	0.53
≥60	65	34	31
Gender
Female	41	18	23	0.31
Male	59	32	27
Tumor size (cm)
<5	55	19	36	0.001
≥5	45	31	14
Tumor stage
Stage I+II	59	22	37	0.002
Stage III+IV	41	28	13
Lymph node metastasis
No	61	23	38	0.002
Yes	39	27	12
Distant metastasis
No	93	47	46	>0.99
Yes	7	3	4
CEA (ng/ml)
<4.70	46	25	21	0.42
≥4.70	54	25	29

NOTE: CEA carcinoembryonic antigen

All data are presented as the means ± SD of three independent experiments. P ≤ 0.05 was considered significant. The bold type represents P values smaller than 0.05