PMID- 32130979 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210329 LR - 20210329 IS - 1096-1208 (Electronic) IS - 0882-4010 (Linking) VI - 143 DP - 2020 Jun TI - TNF-alpha polymorphisms might influence predisposition to periodontitis: A meta-analysis. PG - 104113 LID - S0882-4010(20)30151-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.micpath.2020.104113 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) polymorphisms might influence predisposition to periodontitis, but the results of already published studies were still controversial and ambiguous. So the authors designed this meta-analysis to more precisely estimate relationship between TNF-alpha polymorphisms and periodontitis by pooling the results of already published related studies. METHODS: The authors searched Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science and CNKI for already published studies. Forty-five already published studies were pooled analyzed in this meta-analysis. RESULTS: The crude pooled meta-analyses results showed that distributions of TNF-alpha rs361525, rs1800629, rs1800630 and rs1799964 polymorphisms among patients and controls differed significantly, which suggested that these polymorphisms might influence predisposition to periodontitis in the general population. We also got similar significant results for rs361525, rs1800629, rs1800630 and rs1799964 polymorphisms in subgroup analyses in Asians. The crude findings were further subjected to Bonferroni correction to account for multiple comparisons. For rs361525, rs1800629 and rs1799964 polymorphisms, basically no changes of results were detected. But for rs1800630 polymorphism, the results were no longer significant after adjustment for multiple comparisons. CONCLUSIONS: This meta-analysis suggested that TNF-alpha rs361525, rs1800629 and rs1799964 polymorphisms might influence predisposition to periodontitis, particularly in Asians. CI - Published by Elsevier Ltd. FAU - Li, Ying AU - Li Y AD - Department of Stomatology, Lishui Central Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Lishui, 323000, Zhejiang, China. Electronic address: liyingdhusf@163.com. FAU - Yang, Jie AU - Yang J AD - Department of Infectious Diseases, Lishui Central Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Lishui, 323000, Zhejiang, China. Electronic address: yangjieshus@126.com. FAU - Wu, Xiaoyan AU - Wu X AD - Department of Radiotherapy, Lishui Municipal Central Hospital, Lishui, 323000, Zhejiang, China. Electronic address: wuyxiaogyanf@163.com. FAU - Sun, Weifeng AU - Sun W AD - School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Lishui University, Lishui, 323000, Zhejiang, China. Electronic address: sunfeishwzi@126.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Meta-Analysis DEP - 20200301 PL - England TA - Microb Pathog JT - Microbial pathogenesis JID - 8606191 RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) SB - IM MH - Genetic Predisposition to Disease/*genetics MH - Humans MH - Periodontitis/*genetics MH - Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/*genetics MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/*genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - Asians OT - Meta-analysis OT - Periodontitis OT - Polymorphisms OT - Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2020/03/05 06:00 MHDA- 2021/03/30 06:00 CRDT- 2020/03/05 06:00 PHST- 2020/01/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/02/24 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/02/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/03/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/03/30 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/03/05 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0882-4010(20)30151-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.micpath.2020.104113 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Microb Pathog. 2020 Jun;143:104113. doi: 10.1016/j.micpath.2020.104113. Epub 2020 Mar 1.