Association between ATM gene polymorphisms, lung cancer susceptibility and radiation-induced pneumonitis: a meta-analysis

Table 1 Characteristics of studies included in our meta-analysis

First Author	Year	Country	Ethnicity	Case/control	Method
On lung cancer susceptibility
Xia W [28]	2010	China	Asians	264/264	TaqMan
Bi N [29]	2014	China	Asians	254/260	PCR-RFLP^a
Lo YL [25]	2010	China	Asians	730/730	MassARRAY
Shen L [21]	2014	China	Asians	487/516	TaqMan
Hsia TC [30]	2013	China	Asians	358/716	PCR-RFLP
Deng Q [31]	2010	China	Asians	315/315	PCR^b
Kim JH [24]	2006	Korea	Asians	616/616	PCR
Liu J [32]	2014	China	Asians	852/852	TaqMan
Yang H [33]	2007	USA	Caucasians	556/556	TaqMan
Landi S [34]	2007	Germany	Caucasians	299/317	PCR
On RP risk
Zhang L [22]	2010	China	Asians	44/209	PCR
Xiong H [26]	2012	China	Asians	56/305	PCR-RFLP
Xiao Y [27]	2015	China	Asians	48/49	TaqMan
Yang M [35]	2011	China	Asians	44/209	PCR

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