“…1). Finally, 16 papers (Pollanen et al, 2001;Wang J. et al, 2001;Cho et al, 2002;Kim et al, 2002;Morgan et al, 2003;Haberbosch and Gardemann, 2005;Nuzzo et al, 2006;Horne et al, 2007;Nanni et al, 2007;Koh et al, 2008;Alp et al, 2009;Fallah et al, 2010;Ghaderian et al, 2010;Zhi et al, 2010;Opstad et al, 2012;Wang L. et al, 2012) were included in our meta-analysis involving 11 032 CAD patients and 4628 non-CAD controls. We divided the included studies into three sections according to ethnicities: Western populations, East Asians, and West Asians.…”