Table 1.
Characteristics of included studies
| First author | Country | # Probes |
# Samples
(GC vs. normal) |
GSE/PMID | Assay type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huang YS ( 16 ) | China | 1918 | 6 (3 vs. 3) | GSE78091 | miRCURY LNA microRNA Array, 7th generation |
| Shin W ( 17 ) | Korea | 833 | 10 (5 vs. 5) | GSE67354 | Homo sapiens miRNA Ca_Hu_MiRNome_v2 |
| Zhang X ( 18 ) | China | 847 | 30 (15 vs. 15 ) | GSE63121 | [miRNA-1_0] Affymetrix miRNA Array |
| Carvalho J ( 19 ) | Portugal | 709 | 47 (37 vs. 10) | GSE33743 | NCode™ Human miRNA microarray probe set V3 |
| Kim CH ( 20 ) | USA | 414 | 124 (90 vs. 34 ) | GSE30070 | Agilent-015868 Human miRNA Microarray |
| Xinhua Li ( 21 ) | China | 72 | 6 (3 vs.3) | 21874264 | miRCURY Array LNA microRNA chip (v.14.0) |
| Tetsuya U ( 22 ) | Japan | 237 | 673 (344 vs. 329) | 20022810 | Ohio State University custom microRNA microarray chip (OSU_CCC version 3.0) |
| Yoshiyuki T ( 23 ) | Japan | 470 | 27 (22 vs. 5) | 20215506 | G4470A Human MiRNA Microarray (Agilent Technologies) |
| Oh H ( 24 ) | Switzerland | 723 | 80 (40 vs. 40) | GSE23739 | Agilent-019118 Human miRNA Microarray 2.0 G4470B |
| Oleg T ( 8 ) | Germany | 476 | 6 (3 vs. 3) | 20726036 | Invitrogen NCode Multi-Species miRNA Microarray |
| Fehmida B ( 25 ) | Saudi Arabia | 2578 | 49 (34 vs. 15) | 27766962 | Affymetrix Genechip miRNA 4.0 |