Table 3: Literature search strategy.
| Selection steps
• Search topic: Alcohol dehydrogenase • Database: PubMed • Years: 1990-2014 |
Search result | |
| ADH ADH + genetic polymorphism (GP) ADH + GP + alcoholism (ALC) ADH + GP + ALC + asian population + African American + Japanese |
7017 721 187 23 7 28 |
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| Applying inclusion criteria for ADH + GP result n = 721 | ||
| Reductions | Criteria not met (n) | Remaining (n) |
| Inclusion criteria not met | 310 | 411 |
| Design, statistics language issues | 210 | 201 |
| Comparison groups/outcome not clear | 97 | 104 |
| Full article not available | 14 | 90 |
| Demographic distribution | % | |
| Total remaining n = 90 Asian population (- Japanese and Indian) Japanese population Indian population African American American Indians Caucasians |
28 32 11 9 8 12 |
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