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Table 2 Validation studies for association of MICA with the risk of HCC development among chronic hepatitis patients

From: Main insights of genome wide association studies into HCV-related HCC

Study/year

Ethnicity

Cases/controls

P value

OR (95%CI)

Kumar 2012 [10]

Japanese

407 HCC cases/699 CHB subjects and 5657 non-HBV controls

0.029

1.19 ( 1.02–1.4)

Lo 2013 [11]

Japanese

1394 HCV-HCC/1629 LC-CHC

0.2

Lange 2013 [12]

European

68 HCV-related HCC patients/1860 HCV patients

0.03

0.58 (0.35–0.95)

Chang 016 [13]

Chinese

120 HCC/124 healthy controls

0.02

1.57(1.07–2.31)

Burza 2016 [14]

European

192 LC-HCC/199 LC

0.34

Huang 2017 [15]

Taiwanese

Cohort of 705 patients receiving INF based antiviral therapy.

58 develop HCC/647 did not develop HCC

0.002

4·37(1.52–12.07)

Mohamed 2017 [16]

Egyptian

47HCV-HCC/47HCV-LC and 47 healthy controls

HCC vs. healthy 0.01

HCC vs. healthy

2.1 (1.17–3.78)

Hai 2017 [17]

Japanese

142 HCV-HCC/575 HCV non-HCC patients

0.0002

4.47 (2.04–9.80)

Augello 2018 [18]

Italian

154 HCV-HCC/93 HCV-LC and 244 healthy controls

HCC VS controls = 0.03

HCC VS LC = 0.04

HCC VS controls

0.599 (0.371–0.968)

HCC VS LC

0.522 (0.276–0.989)

  1. CHB chronic hepatitis B, LC liver cirrhosis, CHC chronic hepatitis C