Toon 201369 | Australia | 1,403 CRC patients, BRAF-PCR and IHC completed on all patients. 51 CRC samples from a registry used for methylation status | Sequencing | Method not reported | x | x | x | x | x | x |
Bouzourene 201072 | Switzer-land | Selected patients known to have MLH1 mutation + patients known to have sporadic CRC but loss of MLH1 | Sequencing | Single-strand conformation analysis | x | x | | | x | x |
Chang 201077 | Taiwan | 561 CRC patients had MSI. IHC conducted on 158 patients who were MSI high or met BG criteria | Sequencing | MS-PCR | x | x | | | x | x |
Perez-Carbonell 201016 | Spain | IHC performed on 2,265 CRC tumours | Sequencing | Bisulfite genomic sequencing (MethyLight & SALSA) | x | x | | | x | x |
Aleayehu 200876 | Slovakia | 22 patients who fulfilled AC, BG, or rBG criteria, plus 1 patient that was MSI high but did not fill criteria, plus 10 MSS patients | No BRAF sequencing | Bisulfite genomic sequencing | | | | | | x |
Hampel 200861 | USA | 500 CRC tumours from patients treated in 6 hospitals had IHC | No BRAF sequencing | MS-PCR & COBRA | | | | | x | x |
Julie 200874 | France | 214 consecutive CRC patients tested for MSI. Tumours that were MSI high, had IHC testing (n = 21) | Sequencing | Bisulfite genomic sequencing (COBRA) | x | x | | | x | x |
Poynter 200871 | USA/Canada | 1,222 CRC patients from 6 registries. IHC conducted in all MSI-H and MSI-L patients (n = 719) | No BRAF sequencing | Bisulfite genomic sequencing (MethyLight) | | | | | x | |
Rahner 200873 | Germany | 763 CRC patients who fulfilled at least one of the rBG criteria | Sequencing | Bisulfite genomic sequencing (COBRA) | | | | | x | x |
Loughrey 200768 | Australia | 500 CRC tumours that were suspected to be HNPCC. 68 patients were MSI high or IHC deficient | allele-specific PCR + Sequencing | No hypermethylation test | x | x | | | | |
Overbleek 200775 | Nether-lands | 667 tumours from family members suspected for Lynch syndrome because they either met the AC or the BG criteria or had history very close to the BG | No BRAF sequencing | Bisulfite genomic sequencing (MethyLight) | | | | | | x |
Wang 200370 | USA | 293 consecutive tumours tested for MSI and IHC | Sequencing | Bisulfite genomic sequencing | x | x | | | | |