Associations between IL12B polymorphisms and tuberculosis in the Hong Kong Chinese population

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 190, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 913-919

  Tso, Hoi W ^a   Yu, Lung Lau ^a   Tam, Cheuk M ^b   Wong, Hing S ^a   Chiang, Alan K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RISK; TUBERCULOSIS; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-12 SUBUNIT P40; INTRONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 4344717316     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422693     Document Type: Article

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