“…It was detected that 15 studies with 1938 cases and 4450 controls were performed in European countries [15, 34-38, 40-42, 44, 59, 60] which among these 15 studies, Turpeinen et al [36] conducted an association study in different city of Finland (Turku, Tampere and Oulu) and reported all data separately, including genotype and allele frequency; thus we considered each population as a separate study. Moreover, 14 studies out of 35 eligible studies were carried out in Asian populations [46,48,49,52,53,[61][62][63][64][65][68][69][70][71], 3 studies were in Americans [58,67,72] and three studies were in Africans [54,56,66] Table 3.…”