Table S3.
References | Country | Ethnicity | Histology | Thyroid tumor
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Methods | |||
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TNM-stage I
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TNM-stage II–IV
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U (n) | M (n) | U (n) | M (n) | |||||
Santoro et al1 | Italy | Caucasian | Thyroid carcinoma | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | MSP |
Qu and Xue2 | People’s Republic of China | Asian | Thyroid carcinoma | 13 | 7 | 1 | 7 | MSP |
Dai et al4 | People’s Republic of China | Asian | Thyroid carcinoma | 15 | 23 | 5 | 7 | MSP |
Abbreviations: M, methylation sample; MSP, methylation-specific PCR; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; U, unmethylation sample.