The Diagnostic Power of Circulating miR-1246 in Screening Cancer: An Updated Meta-analysis

Table 3

Meta-regression analysis for the potential sources of heterogeneity in DOR.

Predictor		Coefficient	Standard error	value
Cancer type:	CRC	-1.121	0.688	0.103
	ESCC	-1.825	0.587	0.002
	HCC	-0.797	0.671	0.235
	PC	-0.632	0.788	0.423
	Others	-0.543	0.601	0.366
Control type:	HC	1.523	0.629	0.015
Technique:	RT-qPCR	-1.528	0.612	0.012

CRC: colorectal cancer; DOR: diagnostic odds ratio; ESCC: esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; HC: healthy control; HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma; PC: pancreatic cancer; RT-qPCR: reverse transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction.