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

Table 4

Bias between miRNA polymorphisms with autoimmune diseases in our meta-analysis.

miRNA polymorphisms	Number of publications	Allele model		Dominant model		Recessive model
		Begg’s test	Egger’s test	Begg’s test	Egger’s test	Begg’s test	Egger’s test
miR-146a rs2910164	70	0.055	0.286	0.124	0.218	0.235	0.056
miR-196a2 rs11614913	26	0.343	0.061	0.427	0.084	0.930	0.948
miR-499 rs3746444	35	0.680	0.432	0.910	0.910	0.234	0.239
miR-146a rs57095329	18	0.544	0.594	0.443	0.608	0.155	0.825
miR-146a rs2431697	8	0.536	0.498	0.734	0.505	0.308	0.057
miR-146a rs6864584	5	0.142	0.123	0.221	0.120	0.462	0.302
miR-149 rs2292832	9	0.404	0.052	0.251	0.213	0.754	0.820
miR-27a rs895819	6	0.188	0.453	0.707	0.794	0.452	0.214