“…After screening, we excluded articles in which CHEK2 I157T was not a studied variant or in which CHEK2 I157T was studied but not in breast cancer. 21 studies (Allinen et al, 2001;Schutte et al, 2003;Cybulski et al, 2004;Dufault et al, 2004;Kilpivaara et al, 2004;Bogdanova et al, 2005;Górski et al, 2005;Cybulski et al, 2006;Nevanlinna et al, 2006;Meyer et al, 2007;Cybulski et al, 2008;Falchetti et al, 2008;Novak et al, 2008;Kaufman et al, 2008;Kleib et al, 2008;Serrano-Fernandez et al, 2009;Scharrer et al, 2010;Cybulski et al, 2011;Domagala et al, 2011) examined the association between CHEK2 variants and breast cancer susceptibility. We then excluded non-casecontrolled, data duplicating, review, new gene variant, and male breast cancer studies.…”