Variations in the NRAMP1 gene and susceptibility to tuberculosis in West Africans

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 640-644

  Bellamy, Richard ^a   Ruwende, Cyril ^a   Corrah, Tumani ^b   McAdam, Keith P W J ^b   Whittle, Hilton C ^b   Hill, Adrian V S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMBIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE FACTORS; BIOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; GAMBIA; GENETICS; INFECTIONS; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; RESEARCH REPORT; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; WESTERN AFRICA;

ADULT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FEMALE; GAMBIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032485353     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199803053381002     Document Type: Article

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