Author, published year (reference no.) Ethnicity No. of Cases/Controls Source of controls OR (95% CI)
∗
Quality control of genotyping Ser/Cys Cys/Cys Sugimura et al., 1999 [16 ] Asian 241/ 197 Hospital 0.80 (0.52–1.21) 1.13 (0.63–2.02)
Sequencing Wikman et al., 2000 [17 ] Caucasian
1
0
5
/
1
0
5
Hospital 0.66 (0.37–1.17) 2.20 (0.41–11.8)
Sequencing Ito et al., 2002 [18 ] Asian
1
3
8
/
2
4
0
Hospital 1.02 (0.63–1.67) 0.85 (0.46–1.56)
None Sunaga et al., 2002 [19 ] Asian
1
9
8
/
1
5
2
Hospital 1.49 (0.91–2.43) 0.98 (0.54–1.77)
None Le Marchand et al., 2002 [20 ] Admixed population
2
9
8
/
4
0
5
Population 0.90 (0.65–1.26) 1.76 (1.15–2.71)
Sequencing Lan et al., 2004 [21 ] Asian
1
1
8
/
1
0
9
Population 1.96 (1.10– 3.48) 1.84 (0.83–4.06
)
None Park et al., 2004 [22 ] Mostly composed of Caucasians
1
7
9
/
3
5
0
Screening 1.89 (1.27–2.80) 4.10 (1.65–10.2)
Sequencing Vogel et al., 2004 [23 ] Caucasian
2
5
6
/
2
6
9
Population
1
.
0
9
(0.75– 1.60
)
0.78 (0.35–1.72)
Replication (random samples) Liang et al., 2005 [24 ]
‡
Asian
2
2
7
/
2
2
7
Hospital 0.94 (0.63–1.41
)
0.98 (0.33–2.87)
Sequencing Hung et al., 2005 [25 ] Mostly composed of Caucasians 2,
1
5
5
/
2
,163 Hospital
0
.90 (0.79–1.03)1.15 (0.84–1.57
)
Replication (random samples) Zienolddiny et al., 2006 [26 ]
‡
Caucasian
3
2
6
/
3
8
6
Population 0.91 (0.64–1.29) 0.63 (0.40–0.97
)
Replication (all samples) Matullo et al., 2006 [27 ] Caucasian
1
1
6
/
1
0
9
4
Population 1.26 (0.83– 1.91)
0
.
82 (0.21–2.33
)
Replication (random samples) Kohno et al., 2006 [28 ] Asian
1
0
9
7
/
3
9
4
Hospital 1.24 (0.94–1.63
)
1.43 (1.02–2.01
)
None Sørensen et al., 2006 [29 ] Caucasian
4
3
1
/
7
9
6
Population
1
.
04 (0.80–1.35
)
1.18 (0.63–2.21
)
Replication (random samples) De Ruyck et al., 2007 [30 ] Caucasian
1
1
0
/
1
1
0
Hospital
0
.
58 (0.33–1.02
)
0.61 (0.13–2.82)
None Karahlil et al., 2008 [31 ] Turkish
1
6
5
/
2
5
0
Hospital 0.82 (0.54–1.24
)
0.65 (0.32–1.29
)
None Miyaishi et al., 2009 [32 ] Asian
1
0
8
/
1
2
1
Hospital 1.47 (0.79–2.73
)
1
.
34 (0.65–2.77
)
None Chang et al., 2009 [33 ] Latino
1
1
2
/
2
9
6
Population 0.91 (0.56–1.47)
1
.
05 (0.45–2.32
)
Replication (random samples) Chang et al., 2009 [33 ] African-American 254/280 Population 1.32 (0.89–1.98) 0.89 (0.25–3.00)
Replication (random samples) Summary
∗
∗
No. of populations
Cochran
𝑄
test for heterogeneity Ser/Cys Cys/Cys All 17 6,
1
8
1
/
7
,331 1.04 (0.94–1.23) 1.22 (1.02–1.45) 0.004 0.220 Caucasian (mostly composed of Caucasians) 7 3,
3
5
2
/
4
,887 1.02 (0.81–1.29) 1.24 (0.84–1.83) 0.004 0.133 Asian 6 1,
9
0
0
/
1
,213 1.23 (0.97–1.55) 1.24 (1.00–1.55)
†
0.159 0.572