Table 2. Characteristics of studies on the association of TLR2 T597C polymorphisms with PTB.
| Author, published year | Ethnicity | Genotyping methods | Case | Control | P HWE | ||||
| TT | TC | CC | TT | TC | CC | ||||
| Thuong 2007 [16] | Vietnam (Asian) | Sequencing | 95 | 73 | 11 | 205 | 154 | 18 | 0.105 |
| Ma 2007 [9] | America (African American) | Sequencing | 46 | 165 | 128 | 29 | 100 | 65 | 0.346 |
| America (Caucasian) | Sequencing | 55 | 90 | 35 | 41 | 47 | 22 | 0.211 | |
| America (Hispanics) | Sequencing | 133 | 191 | 51 | 18 | 80 | 16 | <0.001 | |
| Caws 2008 [25] | Vietnam (Asian) | Mass-Array | 87 | 67 | 11 | 153 | 122 | 31 | 0.364 |
| Xue 2010 [20] | China (Asian) | Sequencing | 99 | 87 | 29 | 110 | 92 | 28 | 0.608 |
| Che 2010 [19] | China (Asian) | Sequencing | 52 | 54 | 9 | 68 | 68 | 20 | 0.644 |
| Li 2011 [26] | China (Asian) | Sequencing | 53 | 57 | 12 | 120 | 110 | 32 | 0.386 |
| Sanchez 2011 [17] | Colombia (Caucasian) | Mass-Array | 173 | 220 | 72 | 95 | 153 | 52 | 0.473 |
| Shi 2012 [18] | China (Asian) | Sequencing | 7 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 0.394 |
PTB: pulmonary tuberculosis, HWE: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium.