“…Of those, seven studies were excluded (Kobashi et al, 2001;Grandone et al, 2003;Tempfer et al, 2004;Chen et al, 2007;Nishizawa et al, 2009;Singh et al, 2010;Sharma et al, 2011), because the distribution of the genotypes in the control group was not in HWE ( p < 0.05). Finally, 18 casecontrol studies were included in this meta-analysis (Yoshimura et al, , 2003Bashford et al, 2001;Tempfer et al, 2001;Hakli et al, 2003;Landau et al, 2004;Serrano et al, 2004;Hillermann et al, 2005;Fatini et al, 2006;Benedetto et al, 2007;Kim et al, 2008;Sandrim et al, 2008Sandrim et al, , 2010bSeremak-Mrozikiewicz et al, 2008;Aggarwal et al, 2010;Turan et al, 2010;Pappa et al, 2011;Salimi et al, 2011). All studies' characteristics and p-value for HWE from each study are listed in Table 1.…”