“…The final meta-analysis included 47 articles. There were 22 articles with 12,833 cases and 151,86 controls for rs1047768 T>C [7–9, 12, 14–31], 14 studies with 11,327 cases and 12,684 controls for rs2296147 T>C [9–11, 13, 18, 24, 26–28, 32–37], 11 studies with 5,898 cases and 7,448 controls for rs2227869 G>C [8, 9, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 38–40], 17 studies with 9,826 cases and 10,552 controls for rs2094258 C>T [10, 11, 18, 24, 26–28, 34–37, 41–46], 21 studies with 10,369 cases and 11,207 controls for rs751402 C>T [10, 13, 24, 26–29, 31, 32, 36, 37, 42–45, 47–52], and 14 studies with 10,873 cases and 12,535 controls for rs873601 G>A [9–11, 18, 24, 26–28, 32, 34, 36, 52–54]. A flow chart summarizing the process of relevant study identification is shown in Figure 1, and the study characteristics are shown in Table 1.…”