The Significance of Long Noncoding RNA H19 in Predicting Progression and Metastasis of Cancers: A Meta-Analysis

Table 1

Characteristics of studies included in this meta-analysis for H19.

Author	Year	Country	Tumor type	Sample	Sample size	Cut-off value
Zhang [3]	2014	China	GC	Tissue	80	Mean
Zhang [21]	2016	China	NSCLC	Tissue	70	Median
Arita [22]	2013	Japan	GC	Plasma	43	0.32
Wang [11]	2015	China	RCC	Tissue	92	3.8-fold change
Wang [23]	2016	China	GBC	Tissue	20	NA
You [24]	2014	China	GC	Tissue	30	Median
Esteves [25]	2005	Brazil	HNSCC	Tissue	35	Absence/presence
Huang [26]	2015	China	EC	Tissue	133	Median
Chen [27]	2016	China	GC	Tissue	128	Median
Zhu [28]	2015	China	OC	Tissue	70	NA
Tan [29]	2016	China	EC	Tissue	64	NA
Wang [30]	2016	China	GBC	Tissue	24	Median
Han [31]	2016	China	CRC	Tissue	83	3.8-fold change

GC: gastric cancer, NSCLC: non-small-cell lung cancer, RCC: renal cell carcinoma, GBC: gallbladder cancer, HNSCC: head-and-neck squamous cell carcinomas, EC: esophageal cancer, OC: ovarian cancer, and CRC: colorectal cancer.