A meta-analysis of the association between IL28B polymorphisms and infection susceptibility of hepatitis B virus in Asian population

Table 2 Characteristics of the papers included in the meta-analysis and allele frequency of IL28B rs rs8099917 (T-G)

SNP	Area	Author	Year	allele frequency of HBV infection (N = 3,613)		allele frequency of control group (N = 1,409)
				T	G	T	G
rs8099917	China	Li et al. [10]	2011	764	48	385	21
	China	Chen et al. [17]	2012	2276	134	461	27
	China	Ren et al. [12]	2012	248	34	45	2
	Korea	Kim et al. [15]	2013	852	38	196	16
	Thai	Kimkong et al. [19]	2015	402	20	303	25
	China	Jiao et al. [11]	2011	643	41	276	12
	China	Ma et al. [20]	2012	1494	90	947	67
Sum				6,679	405	2,989	170

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