Table 1 Baseline Characteristics of 8 Microarray Data for Pooled-Analysis.

From: High mRNA expression level of IL-6R was associated with better prognosis for patients with ovarian cancer: a pooled meta-analysis

GEO datasets

author

year

country

duration months(s) median(range)

sample size

stage

outcome measures

quality score

GSE9891

Tothill R.

2008

Australia

28 (1–214)

240

I/II/III/IV(11/10/197/21)

OS

8

GSE17260

Yoshihara K.

2010

Japan

30.50 (1–81)

110

III/IV(93/17)

OS

7

GSE26193

Mateescu B.

2011

France

36 (0.10–242.64)

107

I/II/III/IV(21/10/59/17)

OS

7

GSE26712

Birrer MJ.

2015

America

38.28 (0.72–163.80)

185

NR

OS

7

GSE32062

Gonzales KA.

2015

Singapore

41.50 (1–128)

260

III/IV(104/56)

OS

8

GSE49997

Pils D.

2014

Vienna

24.50 (1–49)

194

NR

OS

8

GSE63885

Lisowska K.

2014

Poland

36.83 (3.47–136.00)

75

II/III/IV(2/63/10)

OS

6

TCGA

TCGA

2015

America

28.67 (0.26–180.20)

564

I/II/III/IV(15/27/434/84)

OS

9

  1. NR = not report; OS = overall survival.