Review Article

Genetic Polymorphisms in the RAD51 Gene with a Risk of Head and Neck Cancer and Esophageal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

Table 1

The detailed characteristics of included studies.

First name (year)CountryEthnicityControl typeSample size cases/controlsGenotyping methodCancer type

Lu (2007)USACaucasianHCC716/719PCR-RFLPHNC
Werbrouck (2008)BelgiumCaucasianHCC152/157PCRHNC
Sliwinski (2010)PolandCaucasianHCC191/353PCR-RFLPHNC
Gresner (2012)PolandCaucasianPCC81/111PCRHNC
Romanowicz-Makowska (2012)PolandCaucasianPCC253/253PCR-RFLPHNC
Xue-Jiao (2013)ChinaAsianHCC123/61PCR-RFLPEC
Shu-Xiang (2014)ChinaAsianPCC316/316PCR-RFLPEC
Kayani (2014)PakistanAsianHCC200/150PCR-RFLPHNC
Ming-Zhong (2014)ChinaAsianHCC219/258PCR-RFLPEC
Santos (2018)BrazilUnknownHCC126/130TaqManHNC

HCC: hospital-based case control; PCC: population-based case control; PCR: polymerase chain reaction; RFLP: restriction fragment length polymorphism.