Association between GABRG2 rs211037 polymorphism and idiopathic generalized epilepsies: a meta-analysis

Acta Epileptologica

Table 1 Baseline characteristic of eligible case-control studies

Author	Year	Country	Ethnity	Type of epilepsy	Genotyping Methods	Control	Total	Case	Control
Abou [9]	2018	Egypt	Asian	IGE	PCR-RFLP	healthy	210	100	110
Balan [10]	2013	India	Asian	JME	AS-PCR	healthy	500	235	265
Bhat [11]	2018	India	Asian	JME	PCR-RFLP	healthy	150	50	100
Butila [12]	2018	Romania	Caucasians	IGE	PCR-RFLP	patients	213	60	153
Chou [13]	2007	China	Asian	IGE	PCR-RFLP	healthy	160	77	83
Gitai [14]	2012	Brazil	Mixed	JME	PCR-RFLP	healthy	228	98	130
Haerian [15]	2015	Malaysia	Asian	IGE	MassARRAY	healthy	1,254	176	1,078
Kananura [16]	2002	Germany	Caucasian	CAE	RT-PCR	healthy	289	135	154
Kim [17]	2012	Korean	Asian	CAE	PCR	healthy	242	35	207
Kinirons A [18]	2006	UK	NA	IGE	tSNP	healthy	408	78	330
Kinirons B [18]	2006	Ireland	NA	IGE	tSNP	healthy	400	117	283
Ponnala [19]	2012	India	Asian	IGE	PCR-RFLP	healthy or patients	186	86	100

AS-PCR Allele-specific polymerase chain reaction, CAE childhood absence epilepsy, IGE childhood idiopathic generalized epilepsy, JME Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, MassARRAY matrixassisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry, NA not available, PCR-RFLP polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism, RT-PCR reverse transcription- polymerase chain reaction, tSNP a tagging single nucleotide polymorphism

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