Research Article
Prognostic and Diagnostic Significance of circRNA Expression in Esophageal Cancer: A Meta-analysis
Table 1
Main characteristics of studies for diagnosis analysis.
| Study | Year | circRNA | Cancer type | Sample num | Method | Regulation | Diagnosis power | Case | Control | Sen. | Spe. | AUC. |
| Rong et al. [22] | 2018 | circ-DLG1 | EC | 35 | 28 | qRT-PCR | Upregulated | 82.86% | 50.00% | 0.648 | Fan et al. [19] | 2018 | circ_0062459 | EC | 50 | 50 | qRT-PCR | Downregulated | 64.00% | 92.00% | 0.836 | 2018 | circ_0001946 | EC | 50 | 50 | qRT-PCR | Downregulated | 92.00% | 80.00% | 0.894 | Wang (1) et al. [24] | 2019 | circ-TTC17 | EC | 30 | 25 | qRT-PCR | Upregulated | 73.33% | 88.00% | 0.82 | Zhang et al. [25] | 2019 | circ-SMAD7 | EC | 32 | 25 | qRT-PCR | Upregulated | 78.13% | 96.00% | 0.859 | Hu et al. [20] | 2019 | circ-GSK3β | EC | 43 | 53 | qRT-PCR | Upregulated | 68.75% | 81.25% | 0.793 | Wang (2) et al. [23] | 2020 | circ-SLC7A5 | EC | 87 | 53 | qRT-PCR | Upregulated | 67.82% | 79.25% | 0.772 | Huang et al. [21] | 2020 | circ_0004771 | EC | 105 | 105 | qRT-PCR | Upregulated | 71.43% | 81.90% | 0.816 |
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AUC, area under ROC curve; qRT-PCR, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction; Sen, sensitivity; Spe., specificity; EC, esophageal cancer; circRNA, circular RNA.
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