Table 2 Assessment of potential bias in enrolled studies.

From: Association between C4, C4A, and C4B copy number variations and susceptibility to autoimmune diseases: 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

2011

Liu et al.

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2012

Lv et al.

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2013

Kim et al.

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2007

Yang et al.

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2012

Boteva et al.

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2015

Cleynen et al.

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2014

Hou et al.

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2012

Rigby et al.

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2016

Pereira et al.

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2013

Hou et al.

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2016

Lintner et al.

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

2016

Chen et al.

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO