“…These studies included 9 Caucasian populations (Rodriguez et al, 2002;Korytina et al, 2003;Hersh et al, 2005;Park et al, 2005;Brøgger et al, 2006;Chappell et al, 2008;Židzik et al, 2008;Penyige et al, 2010;Lee et al, 2011) and 10 Eastern Asian populations (Takeyabu et al, 2000;Yim et al, 2000;Yoshikawa et al, 2000;Zhang et al, 2002;Budhi et al, 2003;Park et al, 2003;Cheng et al, 2004;Xiao et al, 2004;Fu et al, 2007;Hua et al, 2012) ( Table 1). The total number of samples in the Caucasian and Eastern Asian populations were 47,048 (6471 cases vs 40,577 controls) and 2586 (1228 cases vs 1358 controls), respectively.…”