Research Article

Association of HLA-DR1, HLA-DR13, and HLA-DR16 Polymorphisms with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Meta-Analysis

Table 2

Quality of included studies was assessed according to the Newcastle-Ottawa scale.

StudyAdequate definition of casesRepresentativeness of casesSelection of control subjectsDefinition of control subjectsControl for important factorExposure assessmentSame method of ascertainment for all subjectsNonresponse rateTotal

Fojtíková et al. [15]101111117
Furukawa et al. [16]110111117
Garcia-Silva et al. [17]111111118
Goldstein and Sengar [18]111101106
Hachicha et al. [19]101111117
Hrycek et al. [20]111111118
Katkam et al. [21]101121118
Kim et al. [22]101111117
Lu et al. [23]101111117
Mohd-Yusuf et al. [24]101101116
Naves et al. [25]111121108
Reveille et al. [26]111101106
Rood et al. [27]110111117
Selvaraja et al. [28]111101117
Vasconcelos et al. [29]111111107
Wadi et al. [30]101101116
Yao et al. [31]111101106
Zhang et al. [32]101101116