[PDF] Top 20 Association of PDE4B Polymorphisms with Susceptibility to Schizophrenia: A Meta-Analysis of Case-Control Studies.

... significant association was found between it and schizophrenia risk in Asian and Caucasian populations under allelic, dominant and recessive ...Sensitivity analysis revealed that this ... See full document

... basis, with numerous different genes each contributing in various degrees to the inherited ...linkage studies, some major susceptibility genes to GD have been identified, including ... See full document

... spite of the publication of several genetic association studies, no clear consensus on the effect of TLR4 or TLR9 variants on the clinical manifestation of malaria has thus far ... See full document

... idence of associations between the IL-10 -1082A>G (rs1800896) polymorphism and susceptibility to the breast cancer were found in Caucasian, Asian and Af- rican populations under all genetic models ... See full document

... region of the VDR gene which is strongly linked with Bsm1, Apa1 and Taq1 has an important impact on VDR mRNA stability ...Several studies have indicated that LL genotype (long/long) confers ... See full document

... interplay of several factors. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in host immune related genes have been consistently sug- gested as participants in susceptibility towards ...several ... See full document

... components of this system have been strong candidates for the investigation of the genetic basis of hypertension and major targets for antihyperten- sive drugs ...previous studies mainly ... See full document

... All meta-analyses were conducted using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (CMA) software (USA, version ...strength of the association of -592A>C and -819T>C polymorphisms ... See full document

... Previous studies have investigated the association between cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) polymorphisms and breast cancer susceptibility, but the results remained ...CTLA-4 ... See full document

... number of case-control studies have been conducted to clarify the association between ApoE polymorphisms and myocardial infarction (MI); however, the results are ...This ... See full document

... importance of Arg194Trp (XRCC1), Ala222Val (MTHFR) and Arg521Lys (EGFR) polymorphisms in different pathways related to cancer predisposition, in the present study we investigated the ... See full document

... enrollment of control group without asthma screening test could have distorted the ...the analysis. Since studies that produced negative results may not have been published, we could not ... See full document

... individuals with predisposing human leukocyte antigen (HLA) ...the association between HLA-DR3 antigen and IDC risk are inconclusive. To derive a more precise estimation of the relationship, a ... See full document

... etiology of ASD is complex, involving genetic and environmental factors ...ed with ASD ...predisposition to ASD occurrence [6,7]. In addition, mutations of NKX2-5 and NOTCH1 also have been ... See full document

... absence of PgRB is suggested due to the inappropriate cycling of the endometrial gland [25]; however PgRA expression in normal cycling is predominant during the proliferative phase, which shifts ... See full document

... this meta-analysis. First of all, even though we performed subgroup analyses stratified by ethnicity and control source, the heterogeneity for GSTM1 polymorphism among the studies was ... See full document

... value of 0% represents no heterogeneity; values of 25%, 50%, 75%, or more represent low, moderate, high, and extreme heterogeneity, ...among studies; otherwise the fixed-effects model (based on the ... See full document

... subgroup analysis by ethnicity, the COX-2 ...effects of the COX- 2 ...owing to the limited number of relevant studies among Asian population included in this meta- ... See full document

... original studies. Secondly, this meta-analysis was limited by the number of cases and controls as well as small sample size, especially in subgroup ...power to show a statistically ... See full document

... 655A>G polymorphisms, but not in ...cy of these results may underlie differences in pop- ulation background, source of controls, lifestyle, dis- ease prevalence, sample size, and also by chance as ... See full document