“…Among the remaining 51 articles, 13 were 13 were meta-analyses, four were conferences, three reported incomplete data, two had no controls, and one had duplicated data. Finally, 15,837 cases and 19,263 controls of 31 studies in 28 articles were included in this meta-analysis (Savage et al, 2007 ; Choi et al, 2009 ; Liu et al, 2010 ; Chen et al, 2011 ; Ding et al, 2011 ; Gago-Dominguez et al, 2011 ; Jaworowska et al, 2011 ; Hofer et al, 2012 ; Wang et al, 2012 , 2016 ; Li et al, 2013 ; Ma et al, 2013 ; Wu et al, 2013 ; Zhang et al, 2013 , 2014 ; Gao et al, 2014 ; Hashemi et al, 2014 ; Singh et al, 2014 ; Su et al, 2014 ; Yin et al, 2014 ; Zhao et al, 2014 ; Jannuzzi et al, 2015 ; Carkic et al, 2016 ; de Martino et al, 2016 ; Oztas et al, 2016 ; Xing et al, 2016 ; Xiao and He, 2017 ; Yuan et al, 2017 ). The genotyping methods included TaqMan PCR, PCR-RFLP, Sequenom, and LDR.…”