Table 4. Publication Bias for CD44 Polymorphism.

No. of studies	Case/ Control	V vs. W allele			VW vs. WW			VV vs. WW			VW+VV vs. WW
		Egger's test		Begg's p2tailed	Egger's test		Begg's p2tailed	Egger's test		Begg's p2tailed	Egger's test		Begg's p2tailed
		T	P		T	p		T	p		t	p
CD44 rs13347
12	6612/7450	2.0295	0.0699	0.1148	2.7706	0.0198	0.0467	1.5961	0.1416	0.1926	2.5345	0.0296	0.0865
CD44 rs11821102
7	3733/4454	0.8158	0.4517	1.0000	0.2789	0.7915	0.7639	5.2630	0.003	0.0355	0.2407	0.8194	1.0000
CD44 rs10836347
7	4402/5167	0.5108	0.6313	0.7639	0.2645	0.8020	1.000	0.2551	0.8088	0.2296	0.2298	0.8274	0.7639
CD44 rs713330
6	3453/3958	0.7957	0.4708	0.4524	0.0939	0.9297	0.7071	0.9319	0.4042	0.2597	0.3235	0.7626	0.7071
CD44 rs187115
5	1716/2065	0.9790	0.3998	0.0864	1.8843	0.1560	0.0864	0.6987	0.5350	0.8065	1.4562	0.2414	0.0864

Significant associations are shown in bold. W- Wild allele, V- Variant allele