Review Article
Meta-Analysis of Cytokine Gene Polymorphisms and Outcome of Heart Transplantation
Table 2
Risk of bias assessment.
| Author, year | Ascertainment of GR | Ascertainment of non-GR | Genotyping controls | Population stratification | Confounding bias | Selective outcome reports | HWE |
| Azzawi et al. 2001 [11] | Yes | Yes | Unclear | NA | No | Yes | No | Bijlsma et al. 2002 [6] | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | No | Yes | No | Plaza et al. 2003 [10] | Yes | Yes | Yes | NA | No | Yes | Yes | Gourley et al. 2004 [8] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No | Yes | No | McDaniel et al. 2004 [9] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No | Yes | No | Filippo et al. 2006 [7] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | No | Yes | No | Girnita et al. 2008 [12] | Yes | Yes | NA | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
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NA: not available.
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