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Table 2 Assessment of potential bias in included studies

From: Association between genetic variation of complement C3 and the susceptibility to advanced age-related macular degeneration: a meta-analysis

Year

First author

Bias in selection of cases

Bias in selection of controls

Bias in genotyping controls

Bias in population stratification

Confounding bias

Multiple test and Selective outcome reports

2007

Yate et al. [54]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2007

Maller et al. [41]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2008

Edwards et al. [31]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2008

Spencer et al. [50]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2009

Scholl et al. [4]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2009

Francis et al. [32]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2009

Park et al. [44]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2009

Despriet et al. [30]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2009

Bergeron et al. [22]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2009

Reynolds et al. [47]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2009

Pei et al. [45]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2010

Cui et al. [29]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2010

Zerbib et al. [56]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2010

McKay et al. [43]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2010

Chen et al. [25]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2010

Kopplin et al. [37]

NO

NO

NO

Unclear

NO

NO

2010

Liu et al. [39]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2011

Yu et al. [55]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2011

Chen et al. [26]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2011

Hageman et al. [33]

NO

NO

NO

Unclear

NO

NO

2011

Peter et al. [46]

Yes

NO

NO

Unclear

NO

NO

2011

Yanagisawa et al. [53]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2012

Martinez et al. [42]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2012

Smailhodzic et al. [49]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2012

Buentello et al. [23]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2012

Tian et al. [51]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2012

Losonczy et al. [40]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2012

Cipriani et al. [27]

NO

Yes

NO

NO

NO

NO

2012

Jaouni et al. [36]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2013

Wu et al. [52]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2013

Helgason et al. [35]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2014

Contreras et al. [28]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2014

Caire et al. [24]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2014

Liu et al. [38]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2015

Hautamaki et al. [34]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2016

Saksens et al. [48]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2017

Bonyadi et al. [20, 21]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2017

Habibi et al. [57]

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO