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Table 1 Characteristics of included studies

From: Association between SMAD3 gene polymorphisms and osteoarthritis risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Year

Country

Ethnicity

Design

OA site

Genotyping method

Sample size (F/M)

HWE

NOS

OA

Control

Valdes-Discovery set

2010

UK

Caucasian

CC

Knee, hip

Allele-specific PCR

477 (NA)

520 (NA)

Y

7

Valdes-Nottingham

2010

UK

Caucasian

CC

Knee, hip

Allele-specific PCR

2014 (NA)

733 (NA)

Y

7

Valdes-Chingford

2010

UK

Caucasian

Cohort

Knee, hip

Allele-specific PCR

317 (317/0)

488 (488/0)

Y

9

Valdes-Hertfordshire

2010

UK

Caucasian

Cohort

Knee

Allele-specific PCR

167 (NA)

867 (NA)

Y

8

Valdes-Estonia

2010

Estonia

Caucasian

Cohort

Knee

Allele-specific PCR

68 (NA)

449 (NA)

Y

8

Jiang

2013

China

Asian

CC

Knee

PCR-RFLP

232 (159/73)

236 (91/145)

Y

7

Su

2015

China

Asian

CC

Knee

PCR-RFLP

518 (328/190)

468 (261/207)

Y

7

Sharma

2017

India

Asian

CC

Knee

Allele-specific PCR

450 (230/220)

458 (234/224)

Y

8

Zhang

2018

China

Asian

CC

Knee

Allele-specific PCR

350 (99/251)

400 (110/210)

Y

8

Zhong

2018

China

Asian

CC

Hip

Allele-specific PCR

500 (260/240)

1080 (580/500)

Y

8

  1. CC case-control, F female, M male, NA number of each gender not available, HWE Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, NOS Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale