“…A total of 25 studies on GP210 (19 studies in English [4] , [5] , [9] , [10] , [12] , [13] , [18] – [21] , [26] , [28] – [35] and six in Chinese [6] , [14] , [15] , [17] , [22] , [23] ) were published between 1988 and 2013 ( Table 1 ), and involved a total of 2,806 PBC patients and 7,494 controls. Of these 25 studies, 15 were carried out in Asia [5] , [6] , [9] , [12] – [15] , [17] , [19] , [20] , [22] , [23] , [29] , [31] , [33] , five in Europe [10] , [28] , [30] , [32] , [35] , and five in South America [4] , [18] , [21] , [26] , [34] ; 56% (14 of 25) using immunoblotting and 48% (12 of 25) with the ELISA method (one article [26] was conducted using two methods). A total of 21 studies on SP100 (13 in English [4] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [12] , [18] – …”