“…For TNF-α 308 G/A polymorphism, there were a total of 12 studies from Caucasian population [11-13,15,17,18,20,27-29,31,32], 3 studies from Asian population [16,19,30], and only one study from the other populations [14]. For TNF-α 238 G/A polymorphism, there were a total of 10 studies from Caucasian population [11–13,15,18,28,29,31–33], 3 studies from Asian population [16,19,30], and only one study from the other populations [14]. The cases in 13 studies were selected from patients with psoriasis [11-14,16-20,27,30,31,33], while the other 4 studies were from patients with psoriatic arthritis [15,28,29,32].…”