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. 2015 Feb 1;8(2):1911–1919.

Table 2.

The baseline characteristics of all eligible studies

References Ethnicity Country Sources of Con. Number of Ca. Number of Con. Thr/Thr Thr/Met Met/Met MAF (%) HWE

Ca./Con. Ca./Con Ca./Con Ca/Con
Duarte MC (2005) Others Brazil HCC 160 150 84/67 53/60 23/23 69.06/64.67 > 0.05
Huang WY (2005) Caucasian Poland PCC 281 390 128/174 128/163 25/53 68.33/65.51 > 0.05
Huang GP (2006) Asian China HCC 309 188 149/112 135/66 25/10 70.06/77.13 > 0.05
Ye W (2006) Caucasian Sweden PCC 126 472 52/203 63/218 11/51 66.27/66.10 > 0.05
Ruzzo A (2007) Caucasian Italy PCC 90 121 35/36 44/66 11/19 63.33/57.02 > 0.05
Palli D (2010) Caucasian Italy PCC 294 546 95/189 148/268 51/89 57.48/59.16 > 0.05
Canbay E (2010) Caucasian Turkey HCC 40 247 16/74 19/146 5/27 63.75/59.51 > 0.05
Zhao L (2011) Asian China HCC 721 989 257/635 321/274 143/80 57.91/78.06 > 0.05
Hu WG (the present study) Asian China HCC 440 602 389/549 50/52 1/1 94.09/95.52 > 0.05

Abbreviations: HCC = Hospital-based case-control study; PCC = Population-based case-control study; Ca = Case; Con = Control; HW = Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in the control group; MAF = minor allele frequency.