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Table 1 Fourteen microarray-based human lung cancer microRNA expression profiling studies (lung cancer tissue versus normal)

From: Meta-analysis of human lung cancer microRNA expression profiling studies comparing cancer tissues with normal tissues

First author (reference)

Year

Lung cancer patients

Differentially expressed miRNAs

  

Origin

Period

Cancer type

Clinical Stage

No. of collected tissue samples (cancer/normal)

Platform

Cut-off criteria

Total

Up-regulated features

Down-regulated features

Boeri [19]

2011

Italy

Jun 2000 to Jun 2006

Lung cancer

Satge I to IV (Stage I 60%)

52 (28/24)

The miRNA microarray (Ohio State University, version 2.0)

P < 0.001

56

6

4

Dacic [20]

2010

USA (Pittsburgh)

NR

ADC

NR

12 (6/6)

FlexmiR human microRNA pool (Version 8, Exiqon, Vedbaek, Denmark)

FC > 20

7

4

3

Gao [21]

2010

China (Jiangsu, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University)

Apr 2008 to Sep 2008

NSCLC

NR

16 (8/8)

miRCURY™ LNA microRNA Arrays (version 10.0, Exiqon, Vedbaek, Denmark)

FC > 2, P < 0.05

27

9

18

   

Apr 2008

SCC [Ref 33]

NR

8 (4/4)

 

FC > 2

31

7

23

Jang [22]

2012

USA (Minnesota)

Jan 1997 to Sep 2008

ADC

Stage I to IV (Stage I 68.0%)

206 (103/103)

Illumina MicroRNA Profiling

FC > 1.5, P < 0.01, DR < 0.05

20

10

10

Ma [23]

2011

China (Zhejiang)

NR

NSCLC (SCC:3; ADC:3)

Stage I to IV (Stage I 16.7%)

12 (6/6)

Illuminia Technologies “humanMI_V2”

FDR <0.1

1

1

0

Raponi [24]

2009

USA (Michigan)

Oct 1991 to Jul 2002

SCC

Stage I to IV (Stage I 55%)

71 (61/10)

Ambion mirVana Bioarray (version 2.0)

Signal intensity (log2) >6 in at least one group

15

13

2

Seike [25]

2009

USA (Baltimore: 15; Minnesota:7); Japan (Hamamatsu: 6)

2000 to 2004

NSCLC (ADC around 78%)

Stage I to IV (Stage I 75%)

56 (28/28)

The miRNA microarray (Ohio State University, version 3.0)

P < 0.01, FDR <0.15

18

5

13

Tan [26]

2011

China (Beijing)

2000 to 2002

SCC

NR

68 (34/34)

CapitalBio platform (CapitalBio Corp.)

Significance analysis of microarray

22

12

10

Võsa [27]

2011

Estonia (Tartu)

2002 to 2008

NSCLC (SCC:18; ADC:20)

Stage I/II (Stage I 92%)

65 (38/27)

Illumina MicroRNA Profiling BeadChip

FC > 2, P < 0.01

60

31

29

Wang [28]

2011

China (Jiangsu, Nanjing Chest Hospital)

2006 to 2008

NSCLC (SCC:7; ADC:16)

NR

46 (23/23)

μParaflo microfluidic chip technology (Atactic Technologies, Houston, TX, USA)

FC > 5, P < 0.01

40

27

13

Xing [29]

2010

USA (Baltimore)

Mar 2000 to Jun 2003

SCC

Stage I

30 (15/15)

GeneChipR miRNA Array (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA)

FC > 1.5, P < 0.01

25

7

18

Yanaihara [30]

2006

USA (Baltimore)

1990 to 1999

NSCLC (SCC:39; ADC:65,)

Stage I to IV (Stage I 62.5%)

208 (104/104)

The miRNA microarray Chip (TJU version 1.1)

P < 0.001

43

15

28

    

SCC

 

78 (39/39)

  

16

10

6

    

ADC

 

130 (65/65)

  

17

5

12

Yang [31]

2010

China (Shaanxi)

NR

SCC

NR

6 (3/3)

miRCURY™ LNA array (version 10.0, Exiqon, Vedbaek, Denmark)

FC > 1.5, P < 0.05

9

2

7

Yu [32]

2010

USA (Baltimore)

NR

ADC

Stage I

40 (20/20)

Taqman human miRNA array A (System Biosciences, Mountain View, CA)

FC > 1.5, P < 0.01

20

11

9

  1. Abbreviations: ADC, adenocarcinoma/adenosquamous carcinoma; FC, fold change; FDR, false discovery rate; miRNAs, microRNAs; NR, not reported; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma.
  2. Only the top ten miRNAs of the identified 56 significantly differentially expressed miRNAs were provided.