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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of 9 included studies

From: The interaction between TERT promoter mutation and MGMT promoter methylation on overall survival of glioma patients: a meta-analysis

Study

Institute

Country

No. of cases

NOS domain

LGG

GBM

Total cases

Selection

Comparability

Outcome

Arita 2016 [26]

Multicenter

Japan

421

337

758

4

0

3

Ceccarelli 2016 [27]

The Cancer Genome Atlas

USA

516

606

1122

4

0

3

Nguyen 2017 [16]

Multicenter

USA

0

303

303

4

0

3

Park 2014 [25]

Seoul National University Hospital

Korea

0

48

48

4

0

2

Picart 2018 [28]

Lyon University Hospital

France

0

17

17

4

0

2

Picca 2018 [29]

OncoNeuro Tek

France

30

86

116

4

0

2

Sasaki 2018 [30]

Multicenter

Japan

26

114

140

4

0

3

Weller 2015 [31]

Multicenter

Germany

137

0

137

4

0

3

Ye 2019 [32]

Xiangya Hospital

China

0

178

178

4

0

2

  1. Abbreviations: LGG Lower-grade glioma, GBM Glioblastoma, NOS Newcastle Ottawa Scale