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. 2025 Jan 28;14:1483521. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1483521

Table 2.

Summary of the diagnostic efficacy of different liquid biopsy biomarkers in differentiating HCC from healthy controls and liver disease patients.

Diagnostic techniques Sensitivity (95%CI) specificity (95%CI) Diagnostic odds ratio (95%CI) Superiority index (95%CI) Relative
sensitivity (95%CI)
Relative
specificity (95%CI)
Diagnostic performance based on HCC vs. healthy control
 exosome 0.877 (0.784-0.933) 0.824 (0.718-0.896) 31.504 (12.937-76.719) 2.797 (0.143-9) 1 1
 lncRNA 0.839 (0.780-0.884) 0.748 (0.707-0.786) 14.364 (9.278-22.238) 1.774 (0.143-7) 0.978 (0.854-1.133) 1.013 (0.819-1.249)
 miRNA 0.871 (0.844-0.893) 0.752 (0.706-0.792) 18.495 (12.843-226.633) 1.88 (0.2-7) 1.005 (0.909-1.145) 0.994 (0.847-1.206)
 mRNA 0.942 (0.778-0.987) 0.583 (0.498-0.664) 10.983 (5.280-22.847) 0.538 (0.111-9) 1.024 (0.851-1.208) 0.685 (0.445-0.950)
 circRNA 0.946 (0.915-0.965) 0.763 (0.609-0.869) 55.74 (18.211-170.604) 3.55 (0.143-3) 1.057 (0.906-1.218) 0.931 (0.637-1.228)
Diagnostic performance based on HCC vs. liver disease
 exosome 0.785 (0.751-0.816) 0.722 (0.675-0.764) 9.511 (7.627-11.860) 0.593 (0.111-2.333) 1 1
 lncRNA 0.871 (0.806-0.917) 0.622 (0.541-0.697) 10.477 (6.793-16.161) 0.621 (0.111-2.333) 1.086 (0.948-1.236) 0.89 (0.674-1.152)
 miRNA 0.797 (0.767-0.824) 0.759 (0.725-0.791) 11.71 (9.255-14.817) 0.975 (0.143-2.333) 1.019 (0.921-1.158) 1.062 (0.902-1.277)
 mRNA 0.949 (0.932-0.962) 0.935 (0.578-0.993) 139.514 (26.334-739.120) 10.621 (7-11) 1.215 (1.095-1.381) 1.225 (1.018-1.490)
 circRNA 0.812 (0.684-0.896) 0.737 (0.686-0.783) 11.386 (5.002-25.920) 0.945 (0.091-5) 1.005 (0.760-1.217) 0.991 (0.628-1.329)
 cfDNA 0.792 (0.719-0.850) 0.739 (0.522-0.880) 10.381 (4.535-23.765) 1.028 (0.091-5.05) 1.001 (0.771-0.208) 1.02 (0.709-1.350)