Table 1.

Microarray databases detailing the mRNA expression of ECT2 (these databases were included in the meta-analysis)

First author	Year	Duration (months)	Histology	Stage	Patient number	Detection	Platform
Landi et al28	2008	NR	ADC	I–IV	58	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133a
Kuner et al29	2009	NR	NSCLC	NR	58	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133a
Baty et al30	2010	44.1	NSCLC	I–IV	56	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133plus2.0
Takeuchi et al31	2006	109.1	NSCLC	I–III	158	Microarray	Agilent Homo sapiens 21.6K
Tomida et al32	2009	109.8	ADC	I–III	117	Microarray	Agilent-014850 G4112F
Zhu et al33	2010	111.5	NSCLC	I–II	133	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133a
Hou et al34	2010	127.2	NSCLC	NR	91	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133plus2.0
Lu et al35	2010	NR	NSCLC	I–IV	60	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133plus2.0
Xie et al36	2011	82.44	NSCLC	I–III	55	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133plus2.0
Rousseaux et al37	2013	140	NSCLC	I–IV	293	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133plus2.0
Okayama et al38	2012	115.5	ADC	I–II	226	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133plus2.0
Bild et al39	2006	81.2	NSCLC	NR	111	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133plus2.0
Selamat et al40	2012	NR	ADC	I–IV	58	Microarray	IlluminaHumanWG-6v3.0
Botling et al41	2013	140	NSCLC	I–IV	196	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133plus2.0
Tang et al42	2013	129.6	NSCLC	I–III	176	Microarray	IlluminaHumanWG-6v3.0
Tarca et al43	2013	NR	NSCLC	I–II	150	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133plus2.0
Raponi et al44	2006	NR	SQC	NR	130	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133a
Der et al45	2014	100.1	NSCLC	I–II	181	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133plus2.0
Shedden et al46	2008	140	ADC	I–III	442	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133a
Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network (CGARN)47	2015	NR	SQC	I–IV	135	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133a
Lee et al48	2008	138.5	NSCLC	NR	138	Microarray	AffymetrixHgu133plus2.0

Abbreviations: ECT2, epithelial cell transforming sequence 2; NSCLC, non-small-cell lung cancer; ADC, adenocarcinoma; SQC, squamous cell lung cancer; NR, not reported.