“…After screening the titles and abstracts, 48 articles were excluded according to the exclusion criteria outlined earlier. Of the 15 potentially relevant articles (Tachi et al, 2001;Ma, 2002;Sun et al, 2002;Li et al, 2008;Wang, 2009;Yang et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2005Zhang et al, , 2010Zhang et al, , 2011Shao, 2013;Wang et al, 2009aWang et al, ,b, 2013Cao et al, 2015;Wu et al, 2015) identified for full study retrieval, five studies (Tachi et al, 2001;Ma, 2002;Wang, 2009;Wang et al, 2009b;Yang et al, 2009) were excluded due to duplication; two studies were excluded due to lack of controls or genotype data (Wang et al, 2013;Cao et al, 2015). Finally, eight articles (including 9 case-control studies) (Sun et al, 2002;Li et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2009a;Zhang et al, 2005Zhang et al, , 2010Zhang et al, , 2011Shao, 2013;Wu et al, 2015) met the inclusion criteria.…”