“…We also carried out a meta-analysis of all available published association studies of the BDNF Val-66-Met polymorphism and OCD on PubMed (until 31 December 2013), with 13 studies in total, including our current family-based and case-control studies (Hall et al, 2003;Mossner et al, 2005;Klaffke et al, 2006;Dickel et al, 2007;Wendland et al, 2007;Alonso et al, 2008;Hemmings et al, 2008;Katerberg et al, 2009;Rocha et al, 2010;Tükel et al, 2012;Márquez et al, 2013) using the Catmap package on R software (version 2.9.2, Vienna, Austria) to combine both case-control (N = 8 studies) and family (N = 5 studies) samples (Nicodemus, 2008).…”