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Androgen Receptor, EGFR, and BRCA1 as Biomarkers in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: A Meta-Analysis
Table 3
Main characteristics of all studies included in the meta-analysis for BRCA1.
| References | Year | Origin | Case-controls | Method of BRCA1 testing |
| Haffty et al. [3] | 2006 | USA | 34/65 | Not mentioned | Pristauz et al. [8] | 2010 | Austria | 44/91 | MLPA | Atchley et al. [18] | 2008 | USA | 93/384 | Not mentioned | Musolino et al. [19] | 2007 | Italy | 20/26 | DHPLC | Li et al. [20] | 2008 | China | 17/61 | SSCP, DHPLC | Byrski et al. [21] | 2008 | Poland | 28/37 | Multiplex allele-specific PCR | Bayraktar et al. [39] | 2013 | USA | 44/108 | Not mentioned | Chen et al. [40] | 2009 | China | 25/107 | DHPLC, germline DNA | Comen et al. [41] | 2011 | USA | 64/387 | pyrosequencing | Kwong et al. [42] | 2009 | China | 59/146 | MLPA | Lee et al. [43] | 2011 | Norway | 156/1011 | PCR | Noh et al. [44] | 2013 | Korea | 52/178 | PCR, Sequencher software | Ou et al. [45] | 2013 | China | 24/55 | PCR-DHPLC | Phuah et al. [46] | 2012 | Japan | 110/321 | MLPA | Xu et al. [47] | 2012 | China | 76/276 | HRM-PCR | Yip et al. [48] | 2009 | Malaysia | 23/58 | MLPA | Zhang et al. [49] | 2012 | China | 96/271 | PCR, BigDye | Rakha et al. [50] | 2009 | UK | 27/216 | Not mentioned |
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