Review Article

Potential Role of lncRNA H19 as a Cancer Biomarker in Human Cancers Detection and Diagnosis: A Pooled Analysis Based on 1585 Subjects

Table 1

Characteristics of the included studies.

First author YearCountryEthnicityCancer typeNormalizerSample typeTest methodCutoffCases/ controlsTPFPFNTNQUADAS-2

Zhang2016ChinaAsianBRCβ-actinPlasmaqRT-PCR1.08597/1165616411005
Zhang2016ChinaAsianBRCβ-actinUrinaryqRT-PCRNA30/4222148284
Sun2016ChinaAsianHCCGAPDHSerumqRT-PCR0. 073180/21114016401954
Chen2016ChinaAsianGCGAPDHtissueqRT-PCR4.615128/128793349955
Hashad2016EgyptAfricanGCGAPDHPlasmaqRT-PCR0.532/30221310176
Zhang2016ChinaAsianBRCβ-actinPlasmaqRT-PCRNA102/96581344834
Zhou2015ChinaAsianGCGAPDHPlasmaqRT-PCRNA70/70581912515
Liu2017ChinaAsianTCGAPDHTissueqRT-PCR3.58131/122953036925

BRC: breast cancer; HCC: hepatic carcinoma; GC: gastric cancer; TC: thyroid cancer; NA.: not available; TP: true positive; FP: false positive; FN: false negative; TN: true negative.