| Author, published year (reference no.) | Ethnicity | No. of Cases/Controls | Source of controls | OR (95% CI) |
Quality control of genotyping | Arg/Gln | Gln/Gln | |
| Ratnasinghe et al., 2001 [34] | Asian | | Population | 1.00 (0.60–1.60) | 1.40 (0.50–1.70 |
Replication (random sample) | David-Beabes and London, 2001 [35] | African-American | | Population | 1.03 (0.66–1.60) | 0.52 (0.14–1.97) |
Replication (random sample) | David-Beabes and London , 2001 [35] | Caucasian | | Population | 0.75 (0.52–1.08) | 0.63 (0.34–1.14) |
Replication (random sample) | Divine et al., 2001 [36] | Caucasian | | Hospital | 0.76 (0.47–1.22) | 1.64 (0.80–3.36) |
None | Chen et al., 2002 [37] | Asian | | Population | 1.02 (0.57–1.80 | 0.67 (0.20–2.26) |
None | Park et al., 2002 [38] | Asian | | Hospital visitors | 1.27 (0.81–2.04) | 2.30 (0.87–6.09) |
Sequencing | Misra et al., 2003 [39] | Caucasian | | Population | 1.10 (0.78–1.54) | 0.84 (0.45–1.58) |
Replication (random sample) | Zhou et al., 2003 [40] | Caucasian | 1,091/1,240 | Hospital visitors | 1.00 (0.80–1.20) | 1.30 (1.00–1.70) |
Replication (random sample) | Ito et al., 2004 [41] | Asian | | Hospital | 1.01 (0.70–1.45) | 1.39 (0.70–2.76) |
None | Popanda et al., 2004 [42] | Caucasian | | Hospital | 0.89 (0.67–1.17) | 0.87 (0.58–1.29) |
Replication (random sample) | Harms et al., 2004 [43] | Caucasian | | Hospital | 0.73 (0.44–1.25) | 1.07 (0.39–2.96) |
Replication (all samples) | Zhang et al., 2005 [44] | Asian | 1,000/1,000 | Hospital | 0.95 (0.79–1.14) | 1.14 (0.84–1.55) |
Replication (all samples) | Hung et al., 2005 [25] | Mostly composed of Caucasians | 2,049/2,015 | Hospital | 1.12 (0.98–1.28) | 1.01 (0.83–1.23) |
Replication (random sample) | Vogel et al., 2004 [23] | Caucasian | | Population | 0.79 (0.54–1.17) | 0.81 (0.46–1.41) |
Replication (random sample) | Schneider et al., 2005 [45] | Caucasian | | Hospital | 0.94 (0.72–1.23) | 0.83 (0.54–1.26) |
None | Shen et al., 2005 [46] | Asian | | Population | 0.59 (0.33– | .75 (0.13–4.23 |
None | Zienolddiny et al., 2006 [26] | Caucasian | | Population | 1.08 (0.78–1.49 | 0.67 (0.39–1.14 |
Replication (all samples) | Matullo et al., 2006 [27] | Caucasian | 116/1,094 | Population | 1.14 (0.75–1.73 | 0.52 (0.19-1.19 |
Replication (random sample) | Yin et al., 2007 [47] | Asian | | Hospital | 1.20 (0.77– | 0.21 (0.05– |
None | López-Cima et al., 2007 [48] | Caucasian | | Hospital | 0.91 (0.70–1.20) | 0.89 (0.61–1.31) |
Sequencing | Pachouri et al., 2007 [49] | Asian | | Population | 0.36 (0.20–0.64) | 0.47 (0.20–1.09) |
None | De Ruyck et al., 2007 [30] | Caucasian | | Hospital | 1.28 (0.69–2.28) | 1.68 (0.67–4.23) |
None | Chang et al., 2009 [33] | Latino | | Population | 1.30 (0.73–2.30) | 3.03 (1.11–7.83) |
Replication (random sample) | Chang et al., 2009 [33] | African-American | | Population | 1.02 (0.62–1.65) | 1.19 (0.24–5.13) |
Replication (random sample) |
| Summary | No. of populations | | | | |
Cochran test for heterogeneity | | | | | | | Arg/Gln | Gln/Gln |
| All | 24 | 8,684/10,913 | | 0.97 (0.89–1.05) | 1.00 (0.86–1.17) | 0.153 | 0.004 | Caucasian (mostly composed of Caucasians) | 13 | 6,154/7,769 | | 1.00 (0.92–1.08) | 0.95 (0.83–1.10) | 0.433 | 0.218 | Asian | 8 | 2,010/2,325 | | 0.90 (0.72–1.13) | 1.08 (0.78–1.49) | 0.024 | 0.030 |
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