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. 2018 Nov 23;38(6):BSR20181235. doi: 10.1042/BSR20181235

Table 1. Characteristics of the included studies.

Study Year Country Ethnicity Diseases Genotyping Source of controls Case Control HWE
TT TG GG TT TG GG
Pouladian [35] 2017 Iran Asian MS RFLP HB 102 34 4 116 21 1 0.963
Inoue [22] 2017 Japan Asian AITDs RFLP HB 273 14 0 66 4 0 0.806
Wang [27] 2014 China Asian AS RFLP HB 262 20 0 279 19 0 0.570
Liang [24] 2012 China Asian GD PCR-SSP PB 172 10 0 147 3 0 0.902
Xu [28] 2011 China(Hui) Asian RA PCR-SSP PB 198 28 0 224 7 0 0.815
Xu [28] 2011 China Asian RA PCR-SSP PB 90 13 0 103 5 0 0.806
Song [26] 2011 China Asian RA TaqMan HB 335 31 0 365 24 0 0.530
Radwan [34] 2011 Egypt African ITP RFLP PB 62 35 0 131 68 9 0.963
Du [21] 2009 China Asian ITP RFLP HB 178 9 0 120 3 0 0.891
Chas [20] 2004 Korea Asian RA SBE PB 203 93 0 256 63 0 0.050

Abbreviations: AITD, autoimmune thyroid disease; AS, ankylosing spondylitis; GD, Graves’ disease; HB, hospital-based; HWE, Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium of controls; ITP, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura; PB, population-based; PCR-SSP, polymerase chain reaction with sequence specific primers; RA, rheumatoid arthritis; RFLP, restriction fragment length polymorphism.