Review Article

A Meta-Analysis of the Association between DNMT1 Polymorphisms and Cancer Risk

Table 1

Characteristics of the included studies in this meta-analysis.

AuthorYearEthnicityCancer typeGenotyping methodCaseControl
TotalMMWMWWTotalMMWMWW

For DNMT1 rs16999593 T/C polymorphism
Wang [12]2014ChineseCervical cancerSequencing1004844810070255
Gao [13]2015ChineseGastric cancerSequencing3101801121842028111722
Li [14]2015ChineseEsophageal cancerMassARRAY258138804026012710924
He et al. [11]2014ChineseProstate cancerMassARRAY15594538155736715
Sun [7]2012ChineseBreast cancerMassARRAY132742522429144050420228
Xiang et al. [6]2010ChineseBreast cancerPCR-RFLP305239642314220895
Jiang et al. [9]2012ChineseGastric cancerSequencing4472831442096165927329
Yang et al. [10]2012ChineseGastric cancerMALDI-TOF24214189122941968315
Tao et al. [15]2015ChineseBreast cancerSequencing23468164230018010515
For DNMT1 rs2228611 G/A polymorphism
Gao [13]2015ChineseGastric cancerSequencing3101671281542023216325
Li [14]2015ChineseEsophageal cancerMassARRAY258131854226011911328
He et al. [11]2014ChineseProstate cancerMassARRAY155826112155796412
Xiang et al. [6]2010ChineseBreast cancerPCR–RFLP3051251493131415412139
Yang et al. [21]2016ChineseRenal cell carcinomaPCR–RFLP2931521172429313913321
Yang et al. [10]2012ChineseGastric cancerMALDI-TOF24213297132851609926
Sun [7]2012ChineseBreast cancerMassARRAY6783412795873336930361
Mostowska et al. [18]2013PolishOvarian cancerPCR–RFLP159287457210449472
Xi et al. [19]2014ChineseBreast cancerMALDI-TOF8103853626384843234373
Lin et al. [20]2015ChineseBreast cancerMALDI-TOF233107109172361209422
Khatami et al. [8]2009IranianGastric cancerPCR–RFLP200345016112326218
For DNMT1 rs2228612 A/G polymorphism
Sun [7]2012ChineseBreast cancerMassARRAY675254273148731308290133
Chang et al. [17]2014ChineseEsophageal cancerSNPlex13752562935710020057
Chang et al. [17]2014ChineseStomach cancerSNPlex14343722835710020057
Chang et al. [17]2014ChineseLiver cancerSNPlex15848743635710020057
Kullmann et al. [16]2013CaucasianBreast cancerTaqMan221193280221180356

Abbreviations: W, wild-type allele; M, mutant-type allele.