Table 1.

Characteristics of studies included in the meta-analysis

			Case			Control
Author	Population	Menses	Arg/Arg	Arg/His	His/His	Arg/Arg	Arg/His	His/His
MARIE-GENICA	Caucasian	postmenopausal	1381	1332	426	2338	2430	658
Gulyaeva	Caucasian	NM	23	40	19	63	61	56
Rebbeck	Caucasian	postmenopausal	199	226		297	259
Rebbeck	African	postmenopausal	85	59		193	153
Yang	Asian	premenopausal	622	116	0	614	112	0
Yang	Asian	postmenopausal	299	65	0	363	58	0
Lilla	Caucasian	NM	198	169	52	374	403	107
Le Marchand	Others	NM	801	424	114	782	484	104
Jerevall	Caucasian	postmenopausal	80	121	28	84	106	38
Han	Asian	premenopausal	92	21	3	136	23	4
Han	Asian	postmenopausal	68	20	5	219	38	6
Choi	Asian	NM	796	190	0	830	215	0
Cheng	Asian	NM	439	27	2	693	47	0
Sillanpaa	Caucasian	premenopausal	145	229	106	147	221	110
Langsenlehner	Caucasian	NM	201	250	47	224	212	63
Chacko	Asian		76	56	8	95	41	4
Chacko	Asian	premenopausa	39	27		42	24
Chacko	Asian	postmenopausa	37	37		53	21
Tang	Others	NM	50	42	11	134	83	13
Zheng	Others	postmenopausal	55	71	29	148	136	44
Seth	Caucasian	NM	229	176	39	110	94	23

^aNM: not mention