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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Apr 5;20(6):1238–1250. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0005

Figure 4. Meta-Analysis of Telomere Length and Cancer in Prospective studies.

Figure 4

The plot was created using Stata version 11.0 (StataCorp, College Station, TX). Lan et al. found an association with longer telomeres and NHL; here inverse log odd ratios were used to compute the summary OR. The weight percents are from the random effects analysis. Heterogeneity was described using the I2-statistic, the approximate proportion of total variability in the point estimates that can be attributed to heterogeneity. The dashed line indicates the pooled estimate of the analysis. Han et al. reported on each skin cancer entity (melanoma, squamous cell, and basal cell carcinoma) separately. We computed and used a summary OR for all skin cancers in this analysis to avoid under-representing heterogeneity.

Abbreviations: OR, odds ratio; NHL, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.