High expression of AFAP1-AS1 is associated with poor prognosis of digestive system cancers: A meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Actin filament-associated protein 1 antisense RNA 1 (AFAP1-AS1) is associated with prognosis in many cancers. The aim of this study was to systematically evaluate the potential correlation between AFAP1-AS1 and the prognosis of digestive system cancers (DSC).

Methods

EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, PubMed, Wanfang Data (Chinese), and CNKI (Chinese) were comprehensively searched for literature published from the establishment of the database to September 2021.All case-control studies that met the inclusion criteria were retrieved; additionally manual retrieval and literature tracing was performed. After extracting the relevant data, Revman 5.3.5 software was used for meta-analysis.

Results

Eighteen studies were included in analyses, high expression

SUBMITTER: Xu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9509167 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature