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Table 1 Main characteristics extracted from the selected studies

From: MicroRNA expression as a prognostic biomarker of tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC): a systematic review and meta-analysis

First author, Date

Country

Study design

biological source

Number of patients

Cut

Off

MiRNA type

MiRNA

expression

HR of deregulated miRNA expression (OS, DSS, DFS, RFS, PFS)

Jia(2013)

China

RT

Tissue

81

Median

miR-195

Downregulation

OS: HR,1.98 (1.28–3.31)

Supic(2018)

Serbia

RT

Tissue

60

ROC analysis, Cutoff = 2.407

miR-183, miR-21

Upregulation

miR-183-OS: HR,5.666(1.708–18.791)

miR-21-OS: HR,2.002 (0.904–4.434)

miR-183-RFS: HR,1.868(0.924–3.776)

Zheng(2016)

China

RT

Tissue

72

Score ≥ 2

miR-21

Upregulation

OS: HR,1.32 (1.09–2.56)

Jia(2014)

China

RT

Tissue

76

Tertile

miR-26a

Downregulation

OS: HR,2.74 (1.44–5.21)

Li

(2009)

China

RT

Tissue

103

Median

miR-21

Upregulation

OS: HR, 2.06 (1.21–3.51)

Kawakita(2014)

Japan

RT

Tissue

79

Score ≥ 1

miR-21

Upregulation

DSS: HR, 1.19 (0.71–1.9)

Maruyama(2018)

Japan

RT

Tissue

50

Median

miR-196a-5p

Upregulation

OS: HR, 1.01(1.21–5.19); DFS: HR, 3.06 (1.32–7.12)

Xie(2016)

China

RT

Tissue

100

Score ≥ 1

miR-320a

Downregulation

OS: HR,1.98(0.939–3.04)

Berania(2017)

Canada

RT

Tissue

58

median

miR-18a, miR-548b

miR-18a-Upregulation

miR-548b-Downregulation

miR-18a-OS: HR,4.20(1.55–13.23)

miR-18a-PFS: HR,6.89 (1.97–29.86)

miR-548b-OS: HR,3.55(1.42–10.82)

Jia(2015)

China

RT

Tissue

105

median

miR-375

Downregulation

OS: HR,2.01(1.20–3.36)

W. Chen(2019)

China

RT

Tissue

126

median

miR-5787

Downregulation

OS: HR,1.976(1.359–2.873)

S. Chen(2019)

China

RT

Tissue

60

median

miR-611

Upregulation

OS: HR,2.19(0.92–5.18)

  1. The abbreviation S. W. indicates that the authors share the last same but different first name