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. 2019 Aug 2;18(4):3481–3492. doi: 10.3892/ol.2019.10709

Table I.

Pooled OR and 95% CI for the association between SFRP1, SFRP2, SFRP 4 and SFRP5 promoter hypermethylation and cancer risk.

SFRP1 SFRP2 SFRP4 SFRP5




Characteristic n OR (95% CI) P-value I2, % n OR (95% CI) P-value I2, % n OR (95% CI) P-value I2, % n OR (95% CI) P-value I2, %
Total 58 8.48 (6.26–11.49) <0.001 62 54 8.21 (6.20–10.88) <0.001 77 19 11.41 (6.42–20.30) <0.001 63 28 6.34 (3.86–10.42) <0.001 79
Cancer type
  Hepatocellular carcinoma 8 5.00 (2.74–9.11) <0.001 50 3 1.91 (1.20–3.03) 0.006 0 3 4.11 (1.95–8.67) <0.001 0
  Gastric cancer 7 10.27 (5.14–20.50) <0.001 51 5 6.97 (2.66–18.25) <0.001 71 2 7.66 (0.87–67.08) 0.070 89 4 3.36 (0.47–23.83) 0.220 94
  Colorectal cancer 6 7.86 (4.87–12.68) <0.001 39 23 8.41 (5.91–11.97) <0.001 73 3 11.04 (2.50–48.76) 0.002 67 4 6.37 (2.18–18.62) <0.001 66
  Esophageal cancer 5 16.18 (3.77–69.47) <0.001 80 4 7.28 (1.72–30.79) 0.007 76
  Breast cancer 4 10.70 (0.82–140.26) 0.070 88 3 30.81 (0.52–1837.06) 0.100 91
  Renal cell carcinoma 5 12.18 (5.66–26.21) <0.001 0 2 13.48 (5.37–33.79) <0.001 0 2 7.39 (3.22–16.98) <0.001 0 2 9.75 (4.29–22.12) <0.001 4
  Cervical cancer 2 60.61 (7.10–517.42) <0.001 0 2 93.72 (29.05–302.32) <0.001 0 3 215.02 (40.42–1143.79) <0.001 0 2 11.89 (0.50–282.90) 0.130 87
  Ovarian cancer 2 22.19 (10.54–46.72) <0.001 0 2 19.00 (6.54–55.16) <0.001 77 2 22.01 (10.49–46.19) <0.001 42 2 59.70 (23.59–151.07) <0.001 0
  Endometrial carcinoma 2 3.07 (1.03–9.12) 0.040 0 2 5.97 (2.06–17.33) 0.001 0 2 0.71 (0.16–3.19) 0.660 47 2 2.09 (0.44–10.04) 0.360 61
  Bladder cancer 3 8.20 (3.23–20.76) <0.001 0
  Lung cancer 3 10.68 (5.94–19.20) <0.001 0
  Leukemia 4 12.85 (3.64–45.31) <0.001 27 2 14.07 (1.84–107.61) 0.010 0
Sample material
  Tissue 42 9.46 (6.93 −12.92) <0.001 58 36 8.29 (5.79–11.87) <0.001 79 16 12.12 (6.50–22.59) <0.001 69 23 6.63 (3.85–11.42) <0.001 83
  Blood 11 9.30 (3.60–24.03) <0.001 62 7 7.50 (2.30–24.42) <0.001 86 2 9.15 (1.18–70.81) 0.030 0 2 17.36 (2.29–131.85) 0.006 0
  Feces 2 9.33 (3.09–28.15) <0.001 0 10 9.20 (7.06–11.99) <0.001 42
  Bone marrow 2 2.01 (0.35–11.69) 0.440 0
Region
  Asia 41 7.83 (5.70–10.76) <0.001 56 42 8.69 (6.40–11.81) <0.001 77 13 11.69 (5.86–23.32) <0.001 61 21 6.54 (3.51–12.21) <0.001 81
  Europe 10 7.58 (2.74–20.98) <0.001 77 6 5.73 (1.76–18.72) 0.004 81 2 2.08 (1.22–3.55) 0.007 28
  North America 6 18.21 (9.28–35.71) <0.001 0 5 6.99 (2.53–19.33) <0.001 72 4 9.39 (5.25–16.79) <0.001 0 4 11.70 (6.60–20.74) <0.001 37
Method
  MSP 48 9.95 (7.26–13.64) <0.001 55 41 8.82 (6.21–12.54) <0.001 77 17 11.25 (6.63–19.11) <0.001 52 25 7.21 (4.32–12.03) <0.001 79
  COBRA 2 5.48 (1.89–15.85) 0.002 67 5 9.74 (5.59–16.98) <0.001 74
  MethyLight 2 8.92 (1.10–72.12) 0.04 0 3 12.19 (6.92–21.48) <0.001 0
  MSRE-qPCR 2 3.26 (1.33–7.95) 0.01 0
  QMSP 3 5.01 (0.62–40.67) 0.13 83 2 5.00 (0.60–41.83) 0.140 89 2 25.86 (0.18–3638.77) 0.20 93
  Reverse hybridization method 2 2.46 (0.45–13.58) 0.300 68

COBRA, combined bisulfite restriction analysis; MSP, MSP, methylation-specific PCR; MSRE-qPCR, methylation-sensitive restriction endonucleases; OR, odds ratio; QMSP, real-time quantitative methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction; SFRP, secreted frizzled-related protein.