“…Among the studies included in this meta‐analysis, Gawlik et al found that allele and genotype frequencies of rs1360780, rs4713916, and rs3800373 were not significantly different between monopolar depression patients and controls in a German population (Gawlik et al, 2006); the studies of Papiol et al, Minelli et al, Han et al, and Mikolas et al also did not found differences between depression patients and controls in the distribution of allele or genotype frequencies of FKBP5 rs1360780 in a Spanish, Italian, Korea, and Irish population (Han et al, 2017; Mikolas et al, 2019; Minelli et al, 2013; Papiol et al, 2007); the studies of Zimmermann et al and Piechaczek et al also did not find any main effects of the five FKBP5 SNPs (i.e., rs1360780, rs3800373, rs9296158, rs9470080, and rs4713916) on the risk of depression among the German population (Piechaczek et al, 2019; Zimmermann et al, 2011). On the contrary, Lekman et al found a significant association between rs1360780 and the risk of depression in white non‐Hispanic sample (Lekman et al, 2008); Appel et al reported that the carries of rs1360890 CC or CT were at a higher risk of depression than those carrying TT genotype (Appel et al, 2011); Szczepankiewicz et al observed significant associations between five FKBP5 polymorphisms (rs1360780, rs9470080, rs4713916, rs9296158, and rs9394309) and major depressive disorder (Szczepankiewicz et al, 2014); Tozzi et al reported that patients carrying the high‐risk T allele showed significantly reduced activity in the insula following emotional stimuli than CC homozygous patients in a German population (Tozzi et al, 2016); Yang et al found a positive association between rs1360780 T allele and the risk of depression in a Chinese population, but did not observe a significant association between rs3800373 and depression (Yang, 2014).…”