“…Owing to genetic distribution of controls deviating from HWE and insufficient data, 7 articles were excluded. In the end, after serious of filters were applied, 14 eligible studies were recruited, including 12 studies [ 5 , 10 , 11 , 14 , 20 – 27 ] for susceptibility (3321 cases in case group, 3209 cases in control group), whose control groups were in line with HWE balance; 5 [ 5 , 12 – 14 , 28 ] for prognosis, among which 1 [ 28 ] was excluded because of greater heterogeneity, remaining 4 cases (549 cases). The characteristics and genotype distribution of the included analyses are presented in Tables 1 , 2 , and S1.…”