“…Our research included 20 studies from four continents and four different countries and included 3,137 cases and 15,382 controls. Fifteen studies were from China (Geng, 2011;Guo, Liu, & Guo, 2011;Huihua et al, 2016;Li et al, 2009;Liu, 2005;Shang, 2004;Sun & Zhang, 2005;Sun, Wu, & Deng, 2009;Wang et al, 2015;Wei, Liu, Huang, Tang, & Meng, 2005;Xing, Song, Hongjun, & Zhang, 2006;You, Huang, & Liu, 2007;Zhang, Cheng, Peng, Wang, & Peng, 2007;Zhang & Zhang, 2012;Zhou, Zhu, & Sun, 2007), two studies were from Italy (Flex et al, 2004;Pola et al, 2003), two studies from Egypt (Mohy, Ali, & Omar, 2015;Motawi, Shaker, Taha, & Abdel Raheem, 2012), one study was from the United States (Volcik, Ballantyne, Hoogeveen, Folsom, & Boerwinkle, 2010). Caucasian subjects were included in six studies (Flex et al, 2004;Geng, 2011;Mohy et al, 2015;Motawi et al, 2012;Pola et al, 2003;Volcik et al, 2010), black subjects were included in one (Volcik et al, 2010), and Asians were included in rest of the studies.…”