Meta-Analysis of miRNA Variants Associated with Susceptibility to Autoimmune Disease

Table 3

Metaregression for the heterogeneity of miR-146a rs2910164 comparison in our meta-analysis.

Covariate factors	Allele model				Dominant model				Recessive model
	Exp ()	Std. Err	value	95% CI	Exp ()	Std. Err	value	95% CI	Exp ()	Std. Err	value	95% CI
Disease subtype	1.23	0.09	0.031	1.02-1.48	1.52	0.24	0.015	1.09-1.23	1.53	0.24	0.017	1.02-1.36
Genotypic method	0.93	0.08	0.377	0.78-1.09	1.02	0.02	0.388	0.98-1.05	1.02	0.02	0.321	0.97-1.06
Ethnicity	2.51	0.74	0.005	1.25-3.42	1.09	0.09	0.264	0.93-1.29	1.19	0.100	0.043	1.01-1.41
Mean age	1.22	0.14	0.083	0.97-1.55	1.12	0.17	0.449	0.83-1.51	1.13	0.17	0.446	0.83-1.53
Number of cases	0.96	0.07	0.589	0.81-1.13	0.99	0.03	0.909	0.94-1.06	1.02	0.04	0.655	0.94-1.11
Percentage of female	1.04	0.11	0.736	0.84-1.28	0.95	0.14	0.736	0.72-1.27	1.11	0.17	0.495	0.82-1.51

Exp (): odds ratio; Std. Err: standard error; CI: confidence interval.