ERCC2 and hepatocellular carcinoma: All Ph values in the overall populations, East Asians, hospital-based studies, and studies consistent with HWE were >0.10 after excluding the study by Jiang et al.20 Interestingly, the significance of the pooled ORs for the XPD Lys751Gln polymorphism and HCC risk in the overall populations, East Asians, hospital-based studies, and studies consistent with HWE did not change after omitting this study.