“…Finally, 39 articles that report on the effects of GSTT1 polymorphisms on gastric cancer in Asia covering in total of 7,737 gastric cancer cases and 10,823 controls were remained for data extraction. 11 of them were Chinese (Qian et al, 2001; Sheng and Wang, 2002;Zheng et al, 2002;Liu et al, 2003;Ye et al, 2003;Zhang et al, 2003;Zhou et al, 2003;Xie et al, 2008; Feng et al, 2010; Liu et al, 2013;Shi et al, 2014), and 28 were English (Katoh et al, 1996;Setiawan et al, 2000; Cai et al, 2001;Saadat and Saadat, 2001; Gao et al, 2002a;Wu et al, 2002; Choi et al, 2003;Roth et al, 2004;Mu et al, 2005;Nan et al, 2005a; Sheng et al, 2005;Tamer et al, 2005; Hong et al, 2006; Al-Moundhri et al, 2009;Malik et al, 2009;Masoudi et al, 2009;Moy et al, 2009;Piao et al, 2009;Nguyen et al, 2010;Yadav et al, 2010;Luo et al, 2011;Tripathi et al, 2011;Yadav et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2011; Jing et al, 2012;Malakar et al, 2012; Eom et al, 2013; Haholu et al, 2013). The characteristics of included studies were summarized in Table 1.…”