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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2021

Salivary DNA Methylation as an Epigenetic Biomarker for Head and Neck Cancer. Part II: A Cancer Risk Meta-Analysis.

Óscar Rapado-González, Cristina Martínez-Reglero, Ángel Salgado-Barreira, María Arminda Santos, Rafael López-López, Ángel Díaz-Lagares, María Mercedes Suárez-Cunqueiro

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Óscar Rapado-GonzálezDepartment of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, Medicine and Dentistry School, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8419-7004
Cristina Martínez-RegleroMethodology and Statistics Unit, Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IISGS), 36312 Vigo, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9073-3464
Ángel Salgado-BarreiraMethodology and Statistics Unit, Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IISGS), 36312 Vigo, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4349-4947
María Arminda SantosDepartment of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, Medicine and Dentistry School, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Rafael López-LópezCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1315-655X
Ángel Díaz-LagaresCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
María Mercedes Suárez-CunqueiroDepartment of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, Medicine and Dentistry School, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7774-0643

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aberrant methylation of tumor suppressor genes has been reported as an important epigenetic silencer in head and neck cancer (HNC) pathogenesis. Here, we performed a comprehensive meta-analysis to evaluate the overall and specific impact of salivary gene promoter methylation on HNC risk. The methodological quality was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa scale (NOS). Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated to evaluate the strength of the association and Egger's and Begg's tests were applied to detect publication bias. The frequency of salivary DNA promoter methylation was significantly higher in HNC patients than in healthy controls (OR: 8.34 (95% CI = 6.10-11.39;

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biomarkersDNA methylationepigeneticshead and neck cancerliquid biopsymeta-analysissaliva

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PMCPMC8304899

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