“…We therefore excluded this study from Arg194Trp analysis. After removing these ineligible studies, a total 19 studies with 3387 cases and 6168 controls for Arg399Gln (G>A) polymorphism [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], 12 studies with 2043 cases and 4550 controls for Arg194Trp (C>T) [17], [18], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [28], [29], [32], and 6 studies with 1445 cases and 1905 controls for Arg280His (G>A) [15], [22], [23], [26], [28], [30] were included for further analysis (Figure 1). A database was established to display the study characteristics of each eligible study (Table 1).…”