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The Fisher\u2019s test for combined p values was used for meta-analysis of the RNA expressions in the three datasets. The histologic types differed in RNA expression of PRAME, KIT, SOX17, NANOG, KLF4, POU5F1, RB1, DNMT3B, and LIN28A (p &lt; 0.01). The histologic types had concordant differences in RNA expression of the genes in the three datasets. Eight genes had overlap with a high RNA expression in at least two histologic types. In contrast, only seminoma (SE) had a high RNA expression of KLF4 and only embryonal carcinoma (EC) had a high RNA expression of DNMT3B. In conclusion, the meta-analysis showed that the development of the histologic types of TGCT was driven by changes in RNA expression of candidate genes. 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