Research Article

Lack of Association between Common Polymorphisms in Selenoprotein P Gene and Susceptibility to Colorectal Cancer, Breast Cancer, and Prostate Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

Table 2

Characteristics of case-control studies on SEPP1 polymorphisms and cancer risk included in the meta-analysis.

VariantsAuthorYearTumor typeEthnicityGenotyping methodSource of controlsCaseControl
GGGAAAGGGAAA (HWE)

rs7579Méplan et al.2013BCEuropeanTaqManPB455396864364201010.992
Steinbrecher et al.2010PCaEuropeanMALDI-TOFPB11610527250209330.224
Méplan et al.2010CRCEuropeanKASParHB2603696126932337≤0.001
Sutherland et al.2010CRCAsianPCR-RFLPHB19012132363239670.004
Amini et al.2019CRCAsianPCR-HRMPB2422144023110.022

rs3877899Steinbrecher et al.2010PCaEuropeanMALDI-TOFPB1528610271194270.309
Cooper et al.2008PCaEuropeanTaqManPB1522949172878595970.775
Geybels et al.2013PCaEuropeanMALDI-TOFPB75844153739426670.585
Karunasinghe et al.2012PCaEuropeanTaqManPB1538818255162190.286
Méplan et al.2010CRCEuropeanKASParHB42725847409204440.009
Sutherland et al.2010CRCAsianPCR-RFLPHB79750710100.985
Méplan et al.2013BCEuropeanTaqManPB58632130594317480.499
Jablonska et al.2015BCEuropeanTaqManPB814491225560.948
Mohammaddoust et al.2017BCAsianPCR-RFLPPB8037331513316≤0.001

BC: breast cancer; PCa: prostate cancer; CRC: colorectal cancer; PB: population-based; HB: hospital-based; MALDI-TOF: matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionizing time-of-flight mass spectrometry; PCR-RFLP: polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism; PCR-HRM: polymerase chain reaction high-resolution melting method; KASPar: KBiosciences’ Competitive Allele-Specific PCR; TaqMan: TaqMan fluorescent probe method.