SynthesisMolecular neurobiology2017
Prognostic Value of YKL-40 in Patients with Glioblastoma: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
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- Older studies can underestimate prognosis of glioblastoma biomarker in meta-analyses: a meta-epidemiological study for study-level effect in the current literature.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2018Pooled it
- Elevated YKL-40 expression is associated with a poor prognosis in breast cancer patients.Oncotarget · 2017Pooled it
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- Urine proteomics-based analysis identifies CHI3L1 as an immune marker and potential therapeutic target for bladder cancer.BMC cancer · 2025Article
- A Synopsis of Biomarkers in Glioblastoma: Past and Present.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024Review
- Phase 1 dose expansion and biomarker study assessing first-in-class tumor microenvironment modulator VT1021 in patients with advanced solid tumors.Communications medicine · 2024Article
- Prognostic and predictive role of YKL-40 in anal squamous cell carcinoma: a serological and tissue-based analysis in a multicentric cohort.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Epithelial Membrane Protein-3 and Chitinase-3-like Protein-1 as New Prognostic Predictors of Glioma, a Two-Gene Study.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023Article
- Advances on Liquid Biopsy Analysis for Glioma Diagnosis.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Recent advances in label-free optical, electrochemical, and electronic biosensors for glioma biomarkers.Biomicrofluidics · 2023Review
- Molecular and Circulating Biomarkers in Patients with Glioblastoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Functional analysis of the short splicing variant encoded by CHI3L1/YKL-40 in glioblastoma.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Perspective: targeting VEGF-A and YKL-40 in glioblastoma - matter matters.Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) · 2021Article
- Promoting Prognostic Model Application: A Review Based on Gliomas.Journal of oncology · 2021Review
- Potential biomarkers and challenges in glioma diagnosis, therapy and prognosis.BMJ neurology open · 2020Review
- Astrogliogenesis in human fetal brain: complex spatiotemporal immunoreactivity patterns of GFAP, S100, AQP4 and YKL-40.Journal of anatomy · 2019Review
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Abstract
YKL-40 is the most highly expressed gene in glioblastoma compared with normal brain tissues. Previous studies assessing the association between YKL-40 and survival in glioblastoma patients reported varying magnitude of estimates. The objective of this meta-analysis was to determine the prognostic value of YKL-40 in glioblastoma patients. PubMed and Embase databases were searched for studies relating to YKL-40 and prognosis of glioblastoma patients. Studies reporting estimates for overall survival by YKL-40 expression in glioblastoma patients were considered eligible. A meta-analysis of included studies was performed using fixed- or random-effect model to calculate the pooled hazard ratio (HR) and 95 % confidence interval (95%CI). Eight studies were ultimately considered eligible and included into the meta-analysis. Those eight studies included 1241 glioblastoma patients. Meta-analysis of those studies showed that high YKL-40 expression was associated with worse overall survival in glioblastoma patients (HR = 1.46, 95%CI 1.33-1.61, P < 0.001). Meta-analysis of studies with adjusted estimates and high quality showed that high YKL-40 expression was independently associated with worse overall survival in glioblastoma patients (HR = 1.50, 95%CI 1.35-1.66, P < 0.001). Both subgroup analysis and sensitivity analysis validated the obvious association between high YKL-40 expression and worse overall survival in glioblastoma patients. High YKL-40 expression is independently and markedly associated with worse overall survival in glioblastoma patients. YKL-40 is a good predictive biomarker of prognosis in glioblastoma patients.
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