Table 1 Characteristics of each study chosen in current meta-analysis (N = 10,160 participants)

From: Meta-analytic method reveal a significant association of theBDNF Val66Met variant with smoking persistence based on a large samples

Study name

Publication year

Sample Size

% Caucasian

% male

Current smoking

Never smoking

Val/* genotype frequency (%)

Val/Val

Val/Met

Met/Met

Val/Val

Val/Met

Met/Met

Lang et al.

2007

253

100

48.4

67

41

6

105

30

4

96.0

Wang et al.

2007

149

0 (100% Han Chinese)

100

30

51

20

12

20

16

75.8

Montag et al.

2008

554

100

35.3

90

47

6

264

136

11

96.9

Landi et al.

2009

2238

100

NA

879

521

62

458

277

41

95.4

Zhang et al.

2012

628

0 (100% Han Chinese)

100

81

177

64

74

156

76

77.7

Zhang et al.

2015

1318

0 (100% Han Chinese)

100

215

456

173

114

253

107

78.8

Jiang et al. (EA)

2017

1616

100

49.3

623

235

17

508

210

23

97.5

Jiang et al. (AA)

2017

3404

0 (100% African American)

51.8

1543

121

1

1636

100

3

99.9