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ArticleTumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine2015

Letter regarding Xiao WZ et al. entitled "Relationships between PTEN gene mutations and prognosis in glioma: a meta-analysis".

Weichuan Dai, Junyan Chen, Xieli Guo, Zhaozhi Su

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Article in Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Weichuan DaiDepartment of Neurosurgery, The Jinjiang City Hospital, Jinjiang, 362200, Fujian, China.
Junyan Chen
Xieli Guo
Zhaozhi Su
Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With great interest, we read the article "Relationships between PTEN gene mutations and prognosis in glioma: a meta-analysis" (by Xiao et al. Tumor Biol 35(7):6687-6693, 2014), which has reached important conclusions that the phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) gene mutations were closely related to poor prognosis of glioma patients. Through quantitative analysis, the investigators (Xiao WZ et al.) showed that glioma patients with PTEN gene mutations exhibited a significantly shorter overall survival (OS) than those without PTEN gene mutations (HR = 3.66, 95 % CI = 2.02∼5.30, P < 0.001). Ethnicity-stratified subgroup analysis demonstrated that PTEN gene mutations were closely linked to poor prognosis in glioma among Americans (HR = 3.72, 95 % CI = 1.72∼5.73, P < 0.001), while similar correlations were not observed among populations in Sweden, Italy, and Malaysia (all P > 0.05). The meta-analysis results are encouraging. Nevertheless, some deficiencies still existed that we would like to raise.

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Brain NeoplasmsGliomaHumansPTEN PhosphohydrolasePTEN Phosphohydrolase

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