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. 2013 May 31;177(12):1317–1325. doi: 10.1093/aje/kws394

Table 1.

Characteristics of Eligible Studies in a Systematic Review of TP53 rs1042522 and 5 Common Epithelial Cancers (n = 160)

Study Characteristic Breast Cancer (68 Studies)
Lung Cancer (42 Studies)
Colorectal Cancer (26 Studies)
Ovarian Cancer (16 Studies)
Endometrial Cancer (8 Studies)
All Studies (160 Studies)
No. % of Studiesa No. % of Studies No. % of Studies No. % of Studies No. % of Studies No. % of Studies
No. of cases 30,586 16,743 7,377 1,982 726 57,414
No. of controls 36,213 16,504 10,011 5,226 1,292 69,246
Median no. of cases (IQR) 166 (94–436) 147 (91–307) 121 (76–345) 109 (48–193) 94 (43–118) 137 (78–293)
Median no. of controls (IQR) 215 (109–486) 176 (133–379) 220 (140–347) 281 (74–446) 78 (31–310) 209 (109–423)
Ethnicity
 White 45 66 16 38 16 62 13 81 6 75 96 60
 East Asian 10 15 13 31 8 31 2 13 2 25 35 22
 Black 1 1 2 5 0 0 1 6 0 0 4 3
 Latino 1 1 3 7 1 4 0 0 0 0 5 3
 Other/mixed/NR 11 16 8 19 1 4 0 0 0 0 20 13
Control selection
 Healthy 61 90 24 57 19 73 15 94 6 75 125 78
 Diseased 7 10 18 43 7 27 1 6 2 25 35 22
Matched controls
 Yes 29 43 22 52 10 38 6 37 2 25 69 43
 No/not applicable 39 57 20 48 16 62 10 63 6 75 91 57
Blinding to case-control status
 Yes 7 10 9 21 3 12 2 12 0 0 21 13
 No/NR 61 90 33 79 23 88 14 88 8 100 139 87
Use of genotyping quality control
 Yes 26 38 17 40 11 42 9 56 2 25 65 41
 No/NR 42 62 25 60 15 57 7 44 6 75 95 59
Genotyping methods
 RFLP 32 47 24 57 13 50 2 12 3 38 74 46
 Other methods 36 53 18 43 13 50 14 88 5 63 86 54
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
 Compliant 53 78 36 86 24 92 13 81 7 88 133 83
 In violation 15 22 6 14 2 8 3 19 1 12 27 17
Use of only tumor tissue for genotypingb
 Yes 9 13 3 7 6 23 2 12 2 25 22 14
 No 59 87 39 93 20 77 14 88 6 75 138 86

Abbreviations: IQR, interquartile range; NR, not reported; RFLP, restriction fragment length polymorphism.

a Percentages have been rounded to the nearest integer. Percentages might not sum to 100 because of rounding.

b In all cases, studies provided adequate data to evaluate the source of DNA for case genotyping.