Table 5.

Results of Egger’s and Begg’s tests

Comparison	Egger’s test			Begg’s test
	t	P	95% CI	Z	P
C677T
TT vs. CC	1.27	0.221	-0.566, 2.272	1.21	0.225
CT vs. CC	0.68	0.504	-1.117, 2.180	0.53	0.596
CT+TT vs. CC	1.04	0.315	-0.892, 2.603	0.83	0.405
TT vs. CT+CC	-0.98	0.340	-2.076, 0.760	0.23	0.820
A1298C
CC vs. AA	-0.24	0.821	-2.444, 2.029	0.30	0.764
AC vs. AA	-0.34	0.750	-4.335, 3.332	0.30	0.764
CC+AC vs. AA	-0.14	0.891	-4.155, 3.716	0.60	0.548
CC vs. AC+AA	-0.30	0.774	-2.245, 1.771	0.00	1.000