Review Article
The Association between Abnormal Long Noncoding RNA MALAT-1 Expression and Cancer Lymph Node Metastasis: A Meta-Analysis
Table 1
Characteristics of individual studies included in the meta-analysis.
| Year | Surname | Ethnicity | Country | Cancer type | Total number | MALAT-1 expression | Detection method | High | High with LNM | Low | Low with LNM |
| 2015 | Dong | Asian | China | Osteosarcoma | 19 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 1 | TaqMan | 2015 | Hu | Asian | China | ESCC | 54 | 25 | 16 | 29 | 8 | SYBR Green | 2015 | Zhang | Asian | China | RCC | 106 | 46 | 33 | 60 | 5 | SYBR Green | 2014 | Liu | Asian | China | PC | 45 | 26 | 11 | 19 | 11 | SYBR Green | 2014 | Zheng | Asian | China | CRC | 146 | 73 | 23 | 73 | 19 | TaqMan | 2015 | Pang | Asian | China | PC | 126 | 63 | 46 | 63 | 22 | SYBR Green | 2014 | Okugawa | Asian | Japan | GC | 150 | 88 | 66 | 62 | 39 | TaqMan | 2015 | Hirata | Asian | Japan | RCC | 50 | 25 | 3 | 25 | 0 | TaqMan |
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ESCC: esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; RCC: renal cell carcinoma; PC: pancreatic cancer; CRC: colorectal cancer; GC: gastric cancer.
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