[PDF] Top 20 Prognostic role of common microRNA polymorphisms in cancers: evidence from a meta-analysis.

... percentage of the total variation across studies that is due to heterogeneity rather than to chance, was also ...effect of miRNA polymorphisms on survival outcome (OS) were estimated using forest ... See full document

... member of a large ligand- activated nuclear receptor family characterised by a central DNA binding domain, a carboxyl-terminal ligand binding domain and multiple activation (AF) and inhibitory (IF) functional ... See full document

... distribution of Hardy-Winberg equilibrium (HWE) in controls, chi-square test for goodness of fit was conducted and a ...disequilibrium of HWE. We assessed the association strength of ... See full document

... 40 of them studied rock-, lichen- or foliage-roosting bats (Fig 2). From this screening, we retained 34 stud- ies on bark- and cavity-roosting bats for our meta-analysis, which corresponded to ... See full document

... previous meta-analysis [7] which suggested the -819T allele as a marker of leprosy ...studies. In total, we evaluated ten studies as compared to five in the previous ...results ... See full document

... sources of heterogeneity, we employed a multivariable meta-regression model by incorpo- rating several study-level covariates besides subgroup ...differences in percentage of CAD between ... See full document

... a meta-analysis [18], with 10 studies enrolled, demonstrated that values of AEG-1 SI were significantly different between SCC tissues and corresponding normal adjacent tissues, and later discovered ... See full document

... recognition of the association of mir-21 with cancer in 2005 [16], mir-21 has stood out as the most extensively explored ...oncogenic role of mir-21. Accumulating evidence has ... See full document

... this meta-analysis, we investigated the association between CTLA-4 60G/A (rs3087243) and CTLA-4 -1661A/G (rs4553808) and cancer ...subgroup analysis stratified by ethnicity, source of controls ... See full document

... Increasing evidence showed the association of inflammation and cancer [30] and was helpful in the prevention and treatment of cancer, such as the anti-inflammation therapy of bladder ... See full document

... operation in hospitals affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS), Shiraz, Iran, during the year ...consisted of history of renal diseases, liver diseases, arrhythmias ... See full document

... most of the labour for harvesting and post-harvest activities (FAO, ...source of income for rural households (Davies et ...number of households in comparison with other ...sustainability ... See full document

... are common sight of many banks in ...implication of customers waiting in long and winding queues could result to prolonged discomfort and economic cost to them; however increasing the ... See full document

... nEASE analysis also suggests that GIPC1 is involved in six major signal transduction networks in breast cancer: integrin- mediated, RHO protein, JAK-STAT, EGF, TGFb and ...our analysis did not ... See full document

... data from 10 papers which comprised of Danish, Germany, Swede, Romanian, Chilean, Indian and ...Using meta-analysis, we found that carrying H allele of D19H polymorphism was associated ... See full document

... effects of machine scale, wear surface structure of the rolls, grinding pressures and rolls speed, gap settings, feed size distribution and moisture content for a range of ...wear of the ... See full document

... directly from each ...heterogeneity of pooled results was estimated using Cochran’s Q test and Higgins’ I-squared ...bias in the literature, and a p-value ...asymmetry in the funnel plot. ... See full document

... quality of the studies employed in this ...assessment of study quality. A study can be awarded a maximum of one star for each numbered item within the selection and exposure ...maximum ... See full document

... Time-series analysis is characterized, as a data mining tool which facilitates understanding nature of manufacturing processes and permits prediction of future values of the process parameters ... See full document

... existed in this meta-analysis should also be ...number of studies involved was relatively small, especially studies about mTOR ...stratifying analysis were difficult to conduct because ... See full document