Table 1.

Characteristics of the 18 included studies

Author	Year	Country	Ethnicity	Diagnosis of case	HIV status	Polymorphisms	Cases/Controls	HWE	NOS scores
Mabunda N, et al	2014	Mozambique	Africa	Smear, biopsy, radiological	Negative	-308	98/367	0.39	5
Varahram M, et al	2014	Iran	Asian	Culture	NA	-308, -857, -238	151/83	0.48	6
Amirzargar AA, et al	2006	Iran	Asian	Smear, radiological	NA	-308, -857, -238	40/123	0.27	4
Anoosheh S, et al	2011	Iran	Asian	Smear, cultures	NA	-308, -863, -857, -238, -244	93/103	0.39	6
Delgado JC, et al	2002	Cambodia	Asian	Smear	Negative	-308, -863, -857, -238, -1030	358/106	<0.001	5
Fan HM, et al	2010	China	Asian	Culture, smear, bronchial aspirate/washing	NA	-308, -238	113/113	0.77	6
Merza M, et al	2009	Iran	Asian	Smear, radiological	NA	-308, -863, -857, -238, -244	117/60	0.79	7
Oh JH, et al	2007	Korea	Asian	Smear, radiological and culture	Negative	-308	145/117	0.18	7
Qu Y, et al	2007	China	Asian	Smear, radiological and culture	Negative	-308	184/111	0.11	7
Selvaraj P, et al	2001	India	Asian	Smear, radiological and culture	NA	-308, -238	210/120	0.4	7
Tang MQ, et al	2008	China	Asian	Smear, radiological	NA	-308	44/108	0.54	6
Vejbaesya S, et al	2007	Thailand	Asian	Smear, radiological and culture	Negative	-308, -238, +488	149/147	0.51	5
Correa PA, et al	2005	Colombia	Caucasian	Smears and cultures	Negative	-308, -238	135/430	0.82	7
Scola L, et al	2003	Italy	Caucasian	Smear, radiological and culture	NA	-308	45/114	0.81	6
Ben-Selma W, et al	2011	Tunisia	African	Smear, radiological and culture	Negative	-308	95/95	0.95	7
Henao MI, et al	2006	Colombia	Caucasian	Smears, culture, biopsy, radiological	Negative	-308	140/135	0.39	5
Trajkov D, et al	2009	Macedonia	Caucasian	Smear, culture	NA	-308	75/301	-	6
Ma MJ, et al	2010	China	Asian	Smear, radiological and culture	NA	-863, -857	543/524	0.04	7

Note. NA: Not association, HWE: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, -: No statistics.