TABLE 1.

Clinicopathological features according to BMAL1 in CRC patients

Variable	No. patients	BMAL1 expression
		BMAL1 (+)	BMAL1 (−)	p value
Sex
Male	55	31	24	0.649 b
Female	29	18	11
Age (years)	58.881 a	56.551 a	62.143 a	0.038 d
Tumor size(mm)	42.440 a	42.306 a	42.629 a	0.944 d
yT category
T1, T2	9	5	4	1.000 c
T3, T4	75	44	31
Lymphatic invasion
Absence	23	10	13	0.090 b
Presence	61	39	22
Location
Colon	55	35	20	0.175 b
Rectum	29	14	15

Note: p values <0.05 are in bold.

^a Average.

^b Square test.

^c Fisher's exact test.

^d t test.