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Table 1 Main characteristics of included studies in this meta-analysis

From: Association between alcohol dehydrogenase-2 gene polymorphism and esophageal cancer risk: a meta-analysis

First author

Year

Country

Ethnicity

Mean age

Sample size

Source of

Genotyping methods

    

Cases

Controls

Cases

Controls

Cases

Controls

Yokoyama A

2001

Japan

Asian

56 ± 7

53 ± 8

112

526

ESCC

HB

PCR-RFLP

Boonyaphiphat P

2002

Thailand

Asian

64.0 ± 9.7

64.5 ± 12.3

202

261

ESCC

HB

APLP

Chao YC

2003

China (Taiwan)

Asian

64.6 ± 12.3

53.0 ± 18.8

88

105

EC

HB

PCR-RFLP

Yokoyama T

2003

Japan

Asian

61.7 ± 7.9

58.9 ± 7.1

233

610

ESCC

PB

PCR-RFLP

Chen HG

2005

China

Asian

58.06 (35–80)

58.53 (35–82)

137

137

EC

PB

PCR

Yang CX

2005

Japan

Asian

61.4 ± 0.6

61.4 ± 0.4

165

495

ESCC/EAC

HB

PCR-CTPP

Hashibe M

2006

Mixed

Caucasian

56.7 ± 2.1

58.9 ± 3.4

167

887

ESCC

PB

TaqMan

Yang SJ

2007

China

Asian

58.3 ± 8.3

52.8 ± 13.2

191

198

EC

PB

PCR-CTPP

Guo YM

2008

China

Asian

60.2 ± 8.9

59.7 ± 9.7

80

480

ESCC

PB

PCR-RFLP

Lee CH

2008

China (Taiwan)

Asian

60.2 ± 3.8

61.3 ± 3.9

406

656

ESCC

HB

PCR-RFLP

Akbai

2009

Iran

Asian

63.6 (25–89)

55.2 (24–90)

746

1373

ESCC

PB

Sequenom

Cui R

2009

Japan

Asian

64.2 ± 8.7

59.7 ± 16.2

1070

2836

ESCC

PB

BeadChip

Ding JH

2010

China

Asian

68.2 ± 5.6

69.8 ± 7.3

221

191

EC

PB

PCR-DHPLC

Tanaka F

2010

Japan

Asian

67.2 ± 7.3

66.5 ± 7.2

742

820

OSCC

PB

BRLMM

Iqbal B

2011

Kashmir

Asian

NA

NA

50

50

EC

PB

Sequencing

Wang YL

2011

China

Asian

57.2 ± 9.4

56.1 ± 7.3

81

162

EC

PB

PCR-CTPP

Gu HY

2012

China

Asian

62.5 ± 6.2

63.8 ± 7.1

380

380

ESCC

HB

MALDI-ToF-MS

Dura P

2013

Dutch

Caucasian

65.0 ± 10.9

64.9 ± 11.1

351

430

ESCC/EAC

PB

TaqMan

Gao Y

2013

China

Asian

NA

NA

2139

2273

ESCC

PB

TaqMan

Wu M

2013

China

Asian

63.7 ± 9.4

63.7 ± 10.3

846

1079

EC

PB

Sequencing

Hou AM

2014

China

Asian

56.5 ± 5.5

58.7 ± 6.3

110

110

ESCC/EAC

PB

PCR-RFLP

Ye B

2014

China

Asian

58.7 ± 6.4

59.9 ± 7.2

1001

1391

ESCC

HB

PCR-RFLP

Babiker H

2015

Sudan

Africa

56.41

47.87

134

233

ESCC/EAC

PB

PCR-RFLP

  1. NA not available, ESCC esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, EAC esophageal adenocarcinoma, OSCC oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma, HB hospital-based, PB population-based, NP normal healthy population, APLP amplified product length polymorphism method, PCR-CTPP polymerase chain reaction with the confronting two-pair primer, PCR-DHPLC polymerase chain reaction and denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography, BRLMM Bayesian robust linear model with Mahalanobis algorithm, MALDI-ToF-MS matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry