Association between cadherin-17 expression and pathological characteristics of gastric cancer: A meta-analysis

Table 1 Characteristics of included studies focusing on protein expression of cadherin-17

Ref.	Year	Country	Sample	Gender (M/F)	Age (yr)	Sample	Method	NOS score
Lin et al[17]	2014	China	216	150/66	65 (32-84)	Tissue	EnVision	8
Qiu et al[9]	2013	China	156	103/53	57 (27-78)	Tissue	EnVision	7
Wang et al[16]	2012	China	191	117/74	-	Tissue	Non-EnVision	8
Sakamoto et al[5]	2012	Japan	152	-	-	Tissue	Non-EnVision	7
Wang et al[30]	2011	China	264	157/107	-	Tissue	EnVision	8
Liu et al[29]	2011	China	46	37/9	-	Tissue	EnVision	6
Lee et al[28]	2010	United States	440	-	-	Tissue	Non-EnVision	8
Xu et al[27]	2009	China	215	169/46	57 (24-82)	Tissue	Non-EnVision	8
Ge et al[35]	2008	China	166	109/57	52.2 ± 10.2	Tissue	EnVision	7
Tian et al[25]	2007	China	66	32/34	53 (29-91)	Tissue	Non-EnVision	6
Park et al[8]	2007	South Korea	208	135/73	-	Tissue	Non-EnVision	8

NOS: Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.