Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2

Nature Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 739-741

  Thye, Thorsten ^a,b   Vannberg, Fredrik O ^c   Wong, Sunny H ^c   Owusu Dabo, Ellis ^d,e   Osei, Ivy ^f   Gyapong, John ^f   Sirugo, Giorgio ^g   Sisay Joof, Fatou ^g   Enimil, Anthony ^d,h   Chinbuah, Margaret A ^f   Floyd, Sian ⁱ   Warndorff, David K ^j   Sichali, Lifted ^j   Malema, Simon ^j   Crampin, Amelia C ⁱ   Ngwira, Bagrey ^j   Teo, Yik Y ^c   Smal, Kerrin ^c   Rocket, Kirk ^c   Kwiatkowski, Dominic ^c   Fine, Paul E ^i,j   Hill, Philip C ^g   Newport, Melanie ^g   Lienhardt, Christian ^g   Adegbola, Richard A ^g   Corrah, Tumani ^g   Ziegler, Andreas ^b   Morris, Andrew P ^c   Meyer, Christian G ^a   Horstmann, Rolf D ^a   Hill, Adrian V S ^c   more..

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^e KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^f Health Research Unit Ghana Health Service   (Ghana)

^g Medical Research Center Laboratories   (Ghana)

^h KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

ⁱ LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^j KARONGA PREVENTION STUDY   (Malawi)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME 18; GAMBIA; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GHANA; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; RISK; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; GAMBIA; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GHANA; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77956635151     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.639     Document Type: Article

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