“…The included studies and their main features are summarized in Table 1 . 7 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 The meta-analysis included 10 studies of individuals with Caucasian ethnicity, 6 of Asian, and one of African. Thirteen studies were performed by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP), three by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and one was conducted by TaqMan assay.…”