Table 1.

Association between circMRPS35 expression and clinical features of HCC

Clinical features	N	High expression	Low expression	p Value
Sex
Male	29	25	4
Female	6	5	1	0.8973
Age (years)
<50	16	14	2
>50	19	16	3	0.8831
Tumor size (cm)
<5	17	14	3
>5	18	16	2	0.2858
Lymph node metastasis
No	25	21	4
Yes	10	9	1	0.013
HBV infection
Yes	31	27	4
No	4	3	1	0.0429
TNM stage
I–II	14	13	1
III–IV	21	17	4	0.0564

TNM, tumor-lymph node-metastasis.