Table 1 Characteristics of studies included in this meta-analysis

From: Association of BRCA2 N372H polymorphism with cancer susceptibility: A comprehensive review and meta-analysis

First author

Year

Cancer type

Race

Source of control

Case

Control

Method

MAF

HWE

Healey

2000

breast

Caucasian

PB

234

266

TaqMan

/

/

Healey

2000

breast

Caucasian

PB

449

453

TaqMan

/

/

Healey

2000

breast

Caucasian

PB

659

866

TaqMan

/

/

Spurdle

2002

breast

Caucasian

PB

1397

775

Taqman

0.26

0.49

Ishitobi

2003

breast

Asian

HB

149

154

PCR-SSCP

0.20

0.10

Menzel

2004

breast

Caucasian

PB

94

152

Pyrosequencingt

0.26

0.76

Menzel

2004

breast

Caucasian

PB

211

912

Pyrosequencingt

0.27

0.90

Freedman

2004

breast

Mixed

PB

1715

2602

Unknown

/

/

Cox

2005

breast

Caucasian

Nested

1285

1660

Taqman

0.27

0.48

Millikan

2005

breast

African

PB

849

675

Taqman

0.13

0.89

Millikan

2005

breast

Caucasian

PB

1265

1135

Taqman

0.28

0.70

Jenkins

2005

breast

Caucasian

Family

1400

800

Unknown

/

/

HBBCS

2006

breast

Caucasian

HB

274

273

Restriction enzyme-based assays

0.32

0.27

HBCS

2006

breast

Caucasian

HB

807

697

Taqman

0.22

0.40

Sheffield

2006

breast

Caucasian

HB

973

956

Taqman

0.30

0.57

LSHTM

2006

breast

Caucasian

Nested

585

598

Restriction enzyme-based assays

0.29

0.28

Madrid

2006

breast

Caucasian

HB

712

767

Taqman and Illumina

0.30

0.39

USRTS

2006

breast

Caucasian

Nested

707

1046

Taqman

0.30

0.34

SEARCH

2006

breast

Caucasian

PB

4454

4537

Taqman

0.28

0.07

KBCP

2006

breast

Caucasian

HB

446

452

Taqman

0.22

0.61

GESBC

2006

breast

Caucasian

PB

602

851

Various

0.29

0.12

Garcia-Closas

2006

breast

Caucasian

PB

3161

2701

Taqman

0.28

0.09

Garcia-Closas

2006

breast

Caucasian

PB

1968

2276

Taqman

0.26

0.18

Johnson

2007

breast

Caucasian

NA

473

2461

Illumina Sentrix Bead Arrays

0.28

0.88

Seymour

2008

breast

Caucasian

HB

263

60

PCR

0.23

0.13

Hu R

2008

breast

Asian

NA

71

85

PCR

0.22

0.16

Dombernowsky

2009

breast

Caucasian

PB

1200

4119

TaqMan

0.28

0.49

Sun

2009

breast

Asian

PB

512

541

PCR

/

/

Li

2011

breast

Asian

HB

152

165

PCR

0.26

0.56

Silva

2011

breast

Mixed

NA

54

20

PCR

/

/

Auranen

2003

Ovarian

Caucasian

PB

680

1546

TaqMan

0.27

0.12

Wenham

2003

Ovarian

Caucasian

PB

312

398

Taqman

0.25

0.81

Beesley

2007

Ovarian

Caucasian

PB

492

948

MALDI-TOF mass spectrophotometric

0.27

0.38

Beesley

2007

Ovarian

Caucasian

PB

930

825

MALDI-TOF mass spectrophotometric

0.26

0.04

Hill

2006

NHL

Mixed

PB

1116

926

Illumina

0.26

0.67

Shen

2006

NHL

Mixed

PB

476

555

Taqman

0.26

0.46

Scott

2007

NHL

Caucasian

PB

676

757

TaqMan

0.29

0.85

Shen

2007

NHL

Caucasian

PB

556

498

TaqMan

0.30

0.46

Salagovic

2012

NHL

Caucasian

HB

107

127

PCR

0.20

0.97

Rudd

2006

CLL

Caucasian

HB

962

2695

Illumina

/

/

Hu

2003

ESCC

Asian

PB

120

231

PCR–SSCP

0.25

0.13

Wu

2006

bladder

Caucasian

PB

604

595

Taqman

0.25

0.76

Debniak

2008

melanoma

Caucasian

PB + HB

627

3819

RTPCR

/

/

Agalliu

2010

prostate

Caucasian

PB

1269

1243

SNPlex™

0.27

0.62

Agalliu

2010

prostate

African

PB

142

79

SNPlex™

0.14

0.66

Kotnis

2012

overall

Asian

HB

109

186

PCR

0.38

0.01

  1. HB, hospital-based; PB, population-based; MAF, minor allele frequency, HWE, Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium; CLL, chronic lymphocytic leukemia; ESCC, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.