Table 1. Characteristics of Selected Articles for Evaluating Associations of SP110 Gene Polymorphisms and TB Risk.

No.	Author	Country	Ethnicity	Study size	Type	SNPs included	Quality score*
1	Liang, et al.34	China	Asian	308/628	PTB	rs11556887, rs9061, rs1135791	16
2	Abhimanyu, et al.12†	India	Asian	110/78	PTB	rs11556887, rs9061, rs3948464, rs1346311, rs6436915, rs2114591	13
3	Abhimanyu, et al.12	India	Asian	32/78	LNTB	rs11556887, rs9061, rs1135791, rs1346311	12
4	Cai, et al.18	China	Asian	702/452	PTB	rs11556887, rs9061, rs1135791, rs3948464, rs11679983, rs1365776	16
5	Png, et al.20	Indonesia	Asian	351/364	PTB	rs9061, rs1135791, rs3948464, rs11679983, rs1365776, rs2114592, rs6436915, rs2114591	16
6	Fox, et al.21†	Vietnam	Asian	530/566	PTB	rs11556887, rs1135791, rs3948464, rs1346311, rs1365776, rs2114592, rs6436915	16
7	Fox, et al.21	Vietnam	Asian	133/566	EPTB	rs11556887, rs1135791, rs3948464, rs1346311, rs1365776, rs2114592, rs6436915	15
8	Babb, et al.35	South Africa	African	381/417	PTB	rs1135791, rs3948464, rs1365776, rs2114592	13
9	Cong, et al.19	China	Asian	100/106	PTB	rs9061, rs1135791, rs3948464, rs11679983, rs722555	14
10	Szeszko, et al.33	Russia	European	1912/2104	PTB	rs11556887, rs3948464, rs1346311, rs11679983, rs1365776, rs722555	14
11	Ying, et al.36	China	Asian	198/195	PTB	rs1135791, rs722555	16
12	Thye, et al.32	West Africa	African	1055/1409	PTB	rs11556887, rs3948464, rs1346311, rs1365776, rs2114591	16
13	Jiang, et al.22	China	Asian	424/424	PTB	rs9061, rs1135791	16

PTB, pulmonary tuberculosis; EPTB, extra pulmonary tuberculosis; LNTB, lymph node tuberculosis; SNPs, single nucleotide polymorphisms; TB, tuberculosis; SP110, Speckled 110.

^*Quality scores ranged from 0 points (worst) to 17 points (best), studies scoring more than 14 points were classified as high quality, ^†We treat the article as two independent studies on account of having data of two kinds of TB.