MUC1 and gastric neoplasm: Saeki et al. [61] and Zhang et al. [49] found that this polymorphism was associated with decreased stomach cancer among Asians, while no significant association was found among Caucasians [53].There was only one meta-analysis for MUC1 rs4072037 T>C polymorphism [31], in which a total of 10 studies with 6580 gastric cancer cases and 10324 controls were included.