“…Six of the included studies reported on Asians, [23,29,31,36–38] 13 studies reported on Caucasians, [15,17,18,19,21,25–28,31,33–35] and the last 4 studies reported on Brazilians. [20,22,24,32] In terms of the type of periodontitis, 13 studies focused on chronic periodontitis (CP), [18,20–22,24,26,27,31,33–35,37,38] 3 studies focused on aggressive periodontitis (AgP), [28,31,36] and 7 studies focused on both CP and AgP. [15,17,19,23,25,29,32] The subjects of 14 studies were nonsmoker, [15,18,19,21,22,24,26–30,31–33] 4 studies included both smokers and nonsmoker (mixed group), [23,25,34,35] and 5 studies did not provide this information.…”