Tuberculosis and chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Africans and variation in the vitamin D receptor gene

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 721-724

  Bellamy, R ^a,b,c   Ruwende, C ^a,b,c   Corrah, T ^a,b,c   McAdam, K P W J ^a,b,c   Thursz, M ^a,b,c   Whittle, H C ^a,b,c   Hill, A V S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS B; HOMOZYGOTE; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUBERCULOSIS; VITAMIN D METABOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GAMBIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, CALCITRIOL; REFERENCE VALUES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033378157     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314614     Document Type: Article

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