Table I.
Characteristics of the studies included in the meta-analysis.
| Author, year | Country | Series | Platform | HCC samples | Non-HCC samples | (Refs.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Li et al, 2008 | China | GSE10694 | GPL6542 | 78 | 88 | (89) |
| Su et al, 2009 | China | GSE12717 | GPL7274 | 10 | 6 | (90) |
| Burchard et al, 2010 | USA | GSE22058 | GPL10457 | 96 | 96 | (91) |
| Sato et al, 2011 | Japan | GSE21362 | GPL10312 | 73 | 73 | (92) |
| Noh et al, 2013 | South Korea | GSE39678 | GPL15852 | 16 | 8 | (93) |
| Wang et al, 2012 | USA | GSE31383 | GPL10122 | 9 | 10 | (94) |
| Morita et al, 2016 | Japan | GSE41874 | GPL7722 | 3 | 4 | (95) |
| Shih et al, 2012 | Taiwan | GSE36915 | GPL8179 | 68 | 21 | (96) |
| Wojcicka et al, 2014 | Poland | GSE63046 | GPL11154 | 24 | 24 | (97) |
| Shen et al, 2014 | USA | GSE54751 | GPL18262 | 10 | 10 | (98) |
| Lou et al, 2019 | Taiwan | GSE69580 | GPL10850 | 5 | 5 | (99) |
| Murakami et al, 2015 | Japan | GSE57555 | GPL18044 | 5 | 16 | (100) |
| Ghosh et al, 2016 | India | GSE67882 | GPL10850 | 4 | 8 | (101) |
| Peng et al, 2015 | USA | GSE64632 | GPL18116 | 3 | 3 | (102) |
| Zhang et al, 2017 | China | GSE98269 | GPL20712 | 3 | 3 | (103) |
| Shi et al, 2018 | China | GSE115016 | GPL21572 | 12 | 12 | (104) |
| TCGA, 2018 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 372 | 50 | – |
| Chen et al, 2013 | China | N/A | N/A | 15 | 15 | (12) |
HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; TCGA, The Cancer Genome Atlas; N/A, not available.