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Table 1 Main characteristics of the eligible studies included in the meta-analysis

From: Association between ATM rs1801516 polymorphism and cancer susceptibility: a meta-analysis involving 12,879 cases and 18,054 controls

First author

Year

Country

Region-specified population

Cancer type

Source of controls

Matched controls

Family history

N

NOS Score

Cases

Controls

Maillet P [45]

2000

Swiss

European

Colorectal cancer

PBC

No

Yes

47

163

7

Dork T [34]

2001

Germany

European

Breast cancer

PBC

Yes

No

1000

500

8

Sommer SS [17]

2002

USA

North American

Breast cancer

HBC

Yes

No

43

43

7

Angele S [33]

2003

France

European

Breast cancer

PBC

Yes

No

254

312

8

Bretsky P [22]

2003

USA

North American

Breast cancer

PBC

Yes

No

428

426

9

Angele S [53]

2004

UK

European

Prostate cancer

PBC

No

No

637

445

7

Buchholz TA [37]

2004

USA

North American

Breast cancer

PBC

No

No

58

528

7

Kristensen AT [46]

2004

Norway

European

Colorectal cancer

PBC

No

No

151

3526

7

Heikkinen K [35]

2005

Finland

European

Breast cancer

PBC

Yes

Yes

121

306

9

Landi S [47]

2006

Six countriesc

European

Lung cancer

HBC

Yes

No

299

317

8

Renwick A [36]

2006

UK

European

Breast cancer

PBC

No

Yes

443

521

7

Tommiska J a [29]

2006

Finland

European

Breast cancer

NR

Yes

Yes

786

708

7

Tommiska J b [29]

2006

Finland

European

Breast cancer

NR

Yes

No

884

708

7

Wu X [48]

2006

USA

North American

Bladder cancer

HBC

Yes

No

696

629

8

Yang H [21]

2007

USA

North American

Lung cancer

HBC

Yes

No

556

556

8

Gonzalez-Hormazabal P [18]

2008

Chile

South America

Breast cancer

HBC

Yes

Yes

126

200

8

Hirsch AE [23]

2008

USA

North American

Breast cancer

HBC

Yes

No

37

95

7

Margulis V [54]

2008

USA

North American

Renal cell cancer

PBC

Yes

No

326

335

9

Schrauder M [32]

2008

Germany

European

Breast cancer

HBC

Yes

No

514

511

8

Tapia T [31]

2008

Chile

South America

Breast cancer

PBC

No

Yes

95

200

7

Akulevich NM a [30]

2009

Russian, Belarus

European

Thyroid cancer

PBC

Yes

No

123

198

9

Akulevich NM b [30]

2009

Russia

European

Thyroid cancer

PBC

Yes

No

132

398

9

Li D [52]

2009

USA

North American

Pancreatic cancer

HBC

Yes

No

734

780

8

Oliveira S [43]

2011

Portuguese

European

Cervical cancer

HBC

No

No

149

280

6

Al-Hadyan KS [49]

2012

Saudi Arabia

Asian

Head and neck cancer

NR

No

No

156

251

6

Xu L a [24]

2012

USA

North American

Thyroid cancer

HBC

No

No

303

511

6

Xu L b [24]

2012

USA

North American

Thyroid cancer

PBC

Yes

No

289

374

9

Alsbeih G [42]

2013

Saudi Arabia

Asian

Cervical cancer

NR

Yes

No

100

100

8

Pena-Chilet M [50]

2013

Spanish

European

Malignant melanoma

HBC

Yes

No

566

347

7

Calderon-Zuniga Fdel C [20]

2014

Mexico

North American

Breast cancer

HBC

No

Yes

94

96

6

Damiola F [39]

2014

Belarus

European

Thyroid cancer

PBC

Yes

No

83

324

9

Wojcicka A [38]

2014

Poland

European

Thyroid cancer

HBC

No

No

1603

1844

6

Maillard S [19]

2015

France

Oceanian

Thyroid cancer

PBC

Yes

No

177

275

9

Pereda CM [41]

2015

Cuba

North American

Thyroid cancer

PBC

Yes

No

203

212

9

Tecza K [51]

2015

Poland

European

Ovarian cancer

HBC

Yes

No

225

348

7

Halkova T [40]

2016

Czech Republic

European

Thyroid cancer

NR

No

No

209

374

6

Al-Harbi NM [44]

2017

Saudi Arabia

Asian

Cervical cancer

NR

Yes

No

232

313

7

  1. HBC, hospital-based case–controls; PBC, population-based case–controls; NR, not report
  2. a,b Two independent case-control studies were presented for the same original study
  3. cThis study was conducted in six Central and Eastern European countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Slovakia